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.
achieved:
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.
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.
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)
achieved:
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