2026-04-27 Logos storage weekly

Week 17 2026 (Mon Apr 20 - Fri Apr 25, 2026) §

Highlights §

• Status-go PR #7332 merged; hidden services over Mix spec finalized with LIONESS and key-blinding signature scheme drafted.
• NAT Traversal advanced with autorelay added, DHT crash fixed, Nim updated to 2.2.10, and UDP keepalive/NAT-type detection experiments underway.
• nim-poseidon2 improved for Logos Blockchain compatibility, and both Storage UI and Storage Module PRs reviewed for Logos Core integration.

Status Integration §

• achieved:
  • status-go/pull/7332 merged!
• next:
  • work out a new PR based on draft PR status-go/pull/7344 - not sure if this will happen this week as I am focusing more on AnonComm.

Testnet filesharing client §

• achieved:
  • Moved release tests workflow to Google Cloud, but the deployment for the cluster is continually stalling.
• next:
  • Finish moving the release tests to Google Cloud.

AnonComm Collaboration §

• achieved:
  • getting more understanding of the Sphinx and SURB packets (MC2 = Marcin Czenko)
  • refreshed myself with libp2p - especially with TCP and QUIC transports from the perspective of using them in our application layer transport implementation (MC2)
  • read Transport layer abstraction over Mix (MC2)
  • Research on the signature scheme with key blinding used in hidden services, and completed its specification in the appendix of hidden services over Mix spec.
  • Finalized an initial draft specification for the logos-storage hidden services over Mix.
  • Worked on a draft LIONESS specification and helped with the implementation for the Sphinx payload encryption.
• next:
  • studying write up on Hidden Services over Mix (MC2)
  • would like to check if MIX demos will run on top of QUIC without problems (MC2)
  • drafting some intitial draft of a naive transport on top of the current block exchange protocol - not sure if this will start this week though (MC2)
  • Work on reference implementation for the signature scheme with key blinding.
  • Research anonymous credentials for DOS/spam prevention.
  • Improve and finalize the LIONESS specifications.
  • Research additional pluggable components for hidden services over Mix:
    • DOS/spam prevention for hidden services.
    • Client authentication and restricted discovery mode.

Integration with Logos Core §

• achieved:
  • Review Storage UI update PR.
  • Review Storage module update PR
• next:
  • Needs to investigate an issue with delete in Storage UI

Logos Blockchain collaboration §

• achieved:
  • improved nim-poseidon2 to allow compatibility with Logos Blockchain (for the “Nimbos” client)

NAT Traversal §

• achieved:
  • Apply review suggestions for private address command line argument
  • Discussions around 2.2.8 Nim update for Logos Storage DHT
  • Release v1.2.3 of nim serde
  • Fix a crash issue in DHT due to logging and release 0.6.2
  • Experiment exploring NAT UDP keepalive and NAT type detection for nodes behind NAT.
  • Add autorelay service in NAT Traversal PR and implements partially the state machine.
  • Update Nim to 2.2.10
• next:
  • Continue the UDP experiment to reach a conclusion
  • Depending on the experiment conclusion, implement DHT client mode
  • Complete the NAT Traversal and write tests