2026-04 IFT-TS monthly

BI §

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• Published Logos Funnel v2 and expanded it with GitHub and node-operator data.
• Published the first Logos YouTube Analytics dashboard and updated it after feedback.
• Advanced the Logos communication overview toward a first dashboard version.
• Prepared and updated the Status App Download dashboard with GitHub and Play Store data.
• Updated the status-network vault dashboard with USD token values.
• Extended finance trade monitoring with treasury extraction and USDS and DAI dashboard updates.
• Started Logos blockchain analytics by extracting testnet and blockchain node data.
• Improved Keycard SEO, GEO, and social-media analysis, including competitor-review monitoring and Twitter ads preparation.
• Solved the Status community bot-monitoring issue after investigation.
• Documented how BI can generate correct shareable analytics links in Notes.

DST §

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• Stabilized nim-libp2p 1.16.0 regression testing by fixing readiness probes, connection timing, and old test-node images.
• Ran Logos Delivery v0.37 and v0.38 regression experiments and found mesh-health, Store, and latency issues.
• Investigated Logos Delivery Store disconnection behavior and documented the Store eviction proposal.
• Advanced Logos blockchain devnets with blend comparisons, namespace dashboards, external-node views, and new deployment testing.
• Fixed a copied edge-node configuration that caused multiple blockchain nodes to win the same slots.
• Added external OTLP ingestion with bearer tokens, then enriched ingested metrics and logs with pod metadata.
• Adapted LSQUIC benchmarking to vaclab and traced QUIC delay spikes to LSQUIC pacing with CUBIC.
• Implemented KAD-DHT closeness-score tooling, scaled tests to 200 pods, and finalized bootstrap-problem reports.
• Merged 10ksim workflow, data, logging, formatting, and analyzer fixes across vacp2p/10ksim#216, #247, #248, #249, and #250.
• Expanded vaclab monitoring with hardware dashboards, CPU alerts, kubectl health-plugin docs, and updated Grafana variables.
• Published a nim-libp2p test image with configurable GossipSub parameters and found CPU-starvation and TCP bugs.

Infra §

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• Rolled out LIDO validator-client upgrades and continued separating validator clients, Web3Signers, and monitoring tooling.
• Replaced MEV-Boost with Commit-Boost on hosts and researched related alerting adjustments.
• Migrated EthCTV cluster work toward NixOS and identified Doppelganger detection as the source of validator API errors.
• Fixed Nimbus Hive, benchmark, notification, checkout, build, and disk-pressure issues across the fleet.
• Supported Logos Docker, daemon-mode, storage, delivery migration, Devnet metrics, Basecamp signing, and Windows certificate work.
• Improved Status release and E2E infrastructure across local Waku fleets, Windows nodes, Flatpak, F-Droid, Qt, Squish, and CMake.
• Converted Waku Alibaba Cloud hosts to non-burstable instances and fixed sandbox VPN DNS resolution.
• Reworked CI infrastructure with Nix-Darwin, GitHub runner role fixes, Windows host bootstrapping, and virtual-display setup.
• Hardened Office operations with Matrix admin-security improvements, downtime monitoring, Restic cleanup, and bridge debugging.
• Upgraded Airflow v3 and advanced BI infrastructure with Kubernetes Airbyte, Superset alerts, and local DAG testing.

Nim §

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• Advanced Nimble 1.0.0 with resolver, SAT solver, lazy bootstrap, localdeps, parser, and version-discovery fixes.
• Merged async package discovery as the default and added parallel downloads plus the sync discovery flag.
• Fixed Nimble URL normalization, file URL lookups, special-version comparison, and package-name resolution from git URLs.
• Added protobuf serialization support for Oneof, proto3 maps, enums, options, varints, and stricter wire-type validation.
• Released nim-json-rpc v0.6.0 and updated EthJson RPC integrations across Nimbus and nim-web3.
• Fixed nim-json-rpc unordered-response and custom socket-framing concurrency regressions.
• Built nimlangserver MCP support with tools routes for references, symbols, file checks, project checks, and compatibility fixes.
• Presented nimlangserver MCP work at townhall and verified opencode, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, and Neovim compatibility paths.
• Migrated unittest2 documentation to MdBook and drafted expected-failure and unexpected-pass support.
• Updated Chronos tutorials and opened a nimlangserver contributor guide.

P2P §

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• Completed GossipSub queue-priority, control-queue, and best-effort policy work, including slow-peer score reductions.
• Continued broad nim-libp2p maintenance across pubsub, QUIC transport, stream reset, DNS, Kademlia, logging, CI, and docs.
• Kept AutoNAT tests passing and continued AutoNAT v2 reachability and Kademlia provider-race fixes.
• Completed planned connection-manager work with watermark limits, composable modes, ephemeral tags, autoprune, and examples.
• Completed service-discovery capability work for anoncomms, Logos Core, and nim-libp2p C bindings.
• Added custom protocol-handler registration in vacp2p/nim-libp2p#2314.
• Added peerstore C bindings in vacp2p/nim-libp2p#2346.
• Opened Kademlia provider rejection and spillover work in vacp2p/nim-libp2p#2394.
• Coordinated with DST on validating GossipSub priority queues under real network conditions.
• Added an LSQUIC benchmark harness, synchronous engine processing, reduced key allocations, and cancelSoon maintenance work.

QA §

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• Finished the first LEZ fuzzing proof of concept and documented target coverage and alternative approaches.
• Retested and merged LogosDelivery Python bindings in logos-messaging/logos-delivery-python-bindings#4.
• Merged LogosDelivery E2E helper and node-lifecycle preparation in logos-messaging/logos-delivery-interop-tests#159.
• Expanded LogosDelivery API coverage with S06, S17, S19, S30, send API, and smoke-test scenarios.
• Created the Logos integration test framework for component and Logos Core integration testing.
• Continued Logos Messaging maintenance, including RLN refactoring, Allure reports, and latest-image registration failures.
• Brought nim-libp2p GossipSub interop to passing state and advanced unified-testing and test-plan PRs.
• Improved Status desktop coverage across notifications, Hoodi migration, local Waku fleets, community tests, and release hangs.
• Supported Status mobile 2.38 RC1 testing and advanced 1x1 parity, group-chat, portrait-mode, and BrowserStack investigations.
• Continued status-go functional testing for community permissions, light-client parametrization, SignalClient logging, and Anvil deposit E2E work.

RFC §

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• Reviewed and approved multiple RFC-index and Logos-LIPs maintenance PRs throughout the month.
• Opened the next 1/COSS update in vacp2p/rfc-index#308.
• Tested adversarial-spec locally with Gemini, Claude, and CodexGPT before the next deployment step.
• Aligned with the Logos Blockchain team on the spec process and internal organization.
• Reviewed Logos LIPs in logos-co/logos-lips#254, #178, and #309.
• Completed the move of Logos Messaging specs into Logos-LIPs in logos-co/logos-lips#315.
• Completed the follow-up Waku-reference cleanup in logos-co/logos-lips#316.
• Merged the updated Merkle tree spec after agreement with the Storage team.
• Advanced a working adversarial-spec UI prototype in vacp2p/adversarial-spec-ift#2.
• Fixed Logos-LIPs frontmatter and metadata validation issues that kept specs out of the mdBook site.

SC §

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• Added exact-output swap functionality, renamed swap to SwapExactInput, and ported the work into lez-programs.
• Closed dead-shares, minimum-liquidity-lock, and SyncReserves work while keeping RecoverSurplus review moving.
• Merged AMM trading-fee accounting for LPs in logos-blockchain/lez-programs#46.
• Advanced configurable fee tiers and fee-system follow-up work in lez-programs.
• Kept lez-programs aligned with newer LEZ and SPEL releases and updated Token, AMM, and ATA compatibility.
• Set up the initial AMM app base UI and aligned with LEZ on shared wallet and account modules.
• Added AMM swap UI styling, token pair selection, swap direction, and confirmation-dialog follow-up.
• Landed dummy-data AMM liquidity management with position summary, add/remove flows, slippage controls, and mock confirmation.
• Added LEZ validity-window support and transaction deadlines for AMM swap and liquidity instructions.
• Broke token-program trust-boundary hardening into token, ATA, and AMM follow-up work.
• Deployed Status L2 communities contracts on Hoodi.

Security §

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• Produced the LEZ internal-audit draft and started the Logos Blockchain security review.
• Found and reported a critical Logos Blockchain verification bypass bug that the team quickly fixed.
• Updated treasury signatory onboarding, completed pre-ceremony work, and closed pre-deposit vaults.
• Tested Safe cold-signing flows for adding, swapping, and threshold changes to owners.
• Tested L2 bridging, Zodiac Delay modifiers, and treasury risk-monitoring workflows.
• Reviewed Google SSO dependencies and mapped Keycloak, Okta, and alternative authentication support.
• Reviewed and remediated access-token risk through pending requests, active-token scope checks, and over-privileged token revocation.
• Triaged Dependabot, code-scanning, and secret-scanning alerts across status-im repositories.
• Reviewed Keycard, Status, Waku, and Logos PRs with focus on cryptography, key management, and authentication.
• Continued incident, bug-bounty, and audit-report triage, including Logos Messaging and Delivery RLNv2 review.
• Started Element helper-service testing and minimum viable contributor KYB/KYC workflows for n8n.

TKE §

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• Presented the LEZ fee-market model, revised it after feedback, and developed related simulation code.
• Developed, tested, and discussed hybrid PoW and PoS simulation results.
• Continued Logos digital-twin work through parameter collection, BI collaboration, and deployment-image preparation.
• Finalized the Logos token document for fundraising and reviewed the investment deck.
• Continued Logos token KPI emissions design and fundraising-feedback work.
• Reviewed the Karma tokenomics paper.
• Reviewed RFPs across stablecoins, oracles, token vesting, launchpads, and permissionless RWAs.
• Refined stablecoin work with a modified RAI mechanism, control-theory research, simulations, a dashboard, and a report.
• Assisted lambdaPrize marketing, coordinated new prizes and AI reviewer work, and continued submission reviews.
• Continued market-validation research and ecosystem-development RFP review.

Web §

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• Finished SN Hub Hoodi migration and continued SN Hub sunset and status.app self-hosting work.
• Rotated Vercel credentials after the April 2026 incident and removed SN Hub domains from Vercel.
• Added wallet-extension dApp connection, NFT transfers, browser notifications, hardware-wallet QR import, and multi-wallet work.
• Merged the hide-small-balances wallet update and started value-chart follow-up fixes.
• Shipped the first Karma leaderboard UI and added the /karma-tokenomics page.
• Advanced Logos website work across CMS proposals, Figma review, page implementation, design systems, and CMS-frontend integration.
• Fixed Status website SEO issues around /specs/*, legacy redirects, sitemap generation, and universal-link configuration.
• Continued community-curation migration into the status-web monorepo.
• Upgraded nixpkgs to 25.11 and added the active circles page for IFT maintenance.
• Caught a malicious PR attempt, confirmed build logs were clean, and opened follow-up hardening recommendations.