Pre-mainnet research network No public testnet yet Protocol manifest r28 Shielded transfers experimental Current status

Research log

Each protocol change bumps the manifest revision and requires a fresh genesis. This log records those revisions, and the reviews and measurements between them, newest first. Development started on 2026-09-07; the current revision is r28.

Entries#

DateRevisionEntry
2026-10-13Internal security review of ef16072, dated 2026-10-12, added to the record; posture on Assurance. Robustness re-review planned.
2026-10-09Public testnet launch procedure defined: transparent-only, shielded transfers off, and the exact profile qualified before endpoints open.
2026-10-08r28Saturated creator nonces and non-canonical ECRecover recovery IDs rejected; CREATE diagnostics aligned with Shanghai. Delayed rounds now catch up from authenticated peer progress. Corrupt signing records fail closed.
2026-10-01r27Genesis-native formats enforced: V2 only, explicit staking shares, tagged nullifier records. Older development state is rejected. Peer referrals verified against the exact network identity.
2026-09-30Anchor-authenticated peer sampling proposed (D7).
2026-09-28r26Block-header signatures separated from vote digests by a typed signing domain.
2026-09-27r25Full unused CALL stipend returned to the caller.
2026-09-26r17–r24CALLCODE semantics; 0xEF runtime prefix rejected; transaction beneficiary warm; EIP-2929 call access costs; RETURNDATACOPY gas precedence; forced evidence inclusion (r22); 1,025-frame call depth; ECRecover repriced to 9,000 gas (r24). Also: authenticated compact blocks v3, encrypted keystore and remote signer, certified snapshot bootstrap, and the gas-to-time calibration.
2026-09-25r16SSTORE net metering and EIP-3529 refunds.
2026-09-24r15Zero-length EVM memory ranges ignore their offset.
2026-09-20First load qualification. Jepsen-style network-fault harness added.
2026-09-17Threshold randomness beacon proposed, with bias simulations (D3).
2026-09-15r12–r14Guardian recovery (r12), sponsored transactions (r13), transferable delegation shares (r14).
2026-09-14r11.rsc name service. The same day: native Orchard spending with live story coverage.
2026-09-12Second-pass internal audit: 44 findings, 42 fixed with regression tests.
2026-09-11Native Halo 2 Orchard proving and verification integrated. Functional readiness baseline recorded.
2026-09-07 to 09-14r4–r10EVM opcode completeness and the 63/64 gas rule (r4); ABI-head session constraints (r5); EIP-3860 init-code metering (r6); ECVRF secret leader election (r7); the P256VERIFY precompile (r8); P-256 session keys (r9); the EIP-1559 fee market (r10).
2026-09-07Development begins: consensus, libp2p networking, EVM, command-line client and deployment tooling.

As of 2026-10-13, the main branch has 393 commits.

Sources: Protocol manifest revision history and the main branch's commit log at c3acec4.