QA: RLN contract fuzz and adversarial suites expanded via waku-rlnv2-contract#40 and #42, keeping the property-based pipeline current with protocol changes.
QA: Status-go functional tests gained new settings wrappers plus reduced noise as status-go#6984 iterates toward green.
QA: Desktop QA broadened e2e coverage around toplevel windows, Squish 9.1 setup, and Windows send flows while verifying release PRs such as status-desktop#19227.
QA: Mobile QA advanced BrowserStack/Jenkins wiring (status-desktop#19163) and continued the Appium 1x1 chat test port.
DST: Gas-price overflow during RLN registrations was isolated on vac:dst:waku:2025q4-waku-scaling:TWN-supports-RLN-tree, explaining the stalled Merkle tree fills.
DST: Browser bootstrapping work overcame multi-arch docker manifest gaps and now runs in the dedicated zerotesting-pwhite namespace.
DST: Codex-in-Status integration scenarios were tuned via retention and archival limits ahead of handoff.
DST: Regression sweeps on nwaku v0.37 exposed packet loss/logging issues, prompting new image proposals and analysis script fixes.
Nim: Nimble 1.0.0 now supports Nim binary parametrization (nimble#1514) and instrumentation call trees (#1511).
Nim: Packaging fixes such as copying VCS metadata before install (nimble#1513) and addressing nimResolve assertion defects (#1512) cleared several long-standing issues.
P2P: QUIC stabilization merged docker-compose harnesses plus negotiated protocol, wildcard resolver, EOF handling, and timeout fixes across nim-libp2p/nim-quic.
P2P: C-bindings now support threaded workers and richer request handling via nim-libp2p#1820.
P2P: Kademlia provider work delivered getProviders, provider-manager limits, and integration test prep spanning nim-libp2p#1852, #1789, #1843, and #1848.
P2P: Maintenance tightened test layouts, coverage bundles, CI naming, and AsyncSemaphore support in nim-chronos#586.
ACZ: Zerokit removed the legacy FFI implementation (zerokit#337) while the wasm/public API rework (#352) moves toward review.
ACZ: RLN shared database PoC now has unit tests and pending performance fixes before landing in the monorepo.
ACZ: Logos discovery RFC drafting advanced alongside a working POC covering lookup/advertise flows and registrar RPC exchanges.
ACZ: Multi-steward DE-MLS RFC updates from the Waku offsite are being folded into the final review cycle.
RFC: Marketplace RFC phase 2 is nearly wrapped via #208, while block-exchange research kicked off.
RFC: RFC index maintenance continued, keeping open reviews moving across specs.
SC: SimpleKarmaDistributor deploy scripts were extended with initialization logic in status-network-monorepo#62.
SC: Distributed slashing mitigation research continues ahead of the pre-audit protocol enhancement review.
SC: The team is investing in Risc0 upskilling to support Logos and Status L2 zero-knowledge needs.
Security: Web3 security essentials curriculum is nearly publish-ready after reviewing the DeFi, development, and job-search checklists.
Security: Secure signing efforts onboarded legacy members while testing Falcon agents, USB passthrough, and VM builds with multiple hardware wallets.
Security: Incident response closed STATUS-352 Jenkins issues, validated Balancer exposure, and removed a phishing clone of Status Wallet.
Security: Finance automation received final approval for the bank data notifications and continued unified admin audit testing across platforms.
TKE: Karma incentives modeling began using Cyp’s asset strategy as input.
TKE: The Funding the Commons voting workshop app is underway for Devconnect.
TKE: All Hands and Devconnect travel logistics and scheduling were organized to keep the team aligned onsite.
Web: SN Hub deposit, withdraw, discovery, staking, and karma components all moved toward release with new dialogs, skeleton states, and unstaking flows.
Web: Logos/PSF sites advanced with new landing pages, spaces calendar dashboards, and admin tooling updates while staging agency onboarding.
Web: Maintenance shipped the new mobile release (status-web#842), FtW promo updates, vac.dev RLN page, and release CI fixes.
Web: Cross-team reviews kept status-web, psf.logos.co, admin-acid, and vac.dev branches healthy ahead of upcoming launches.
BI: IFT weekly news site regained missing Logos posts while pulling new Vac blogs via refreshed Airbyte jobs.
BI: Finance dashboards advanced with DBT balance work, treasury syncs, and etherscan-backed transaction validation.
BI: RAG LLM pipeline hardened through chunk-prefix tweaks, Qdrant fixes, and fresh source-count dashboards.
Infra: LIDO validators swapped hardware and gained Agenix/ZFS tooling plus fixed Cloudflare token usage.
Infra: CI stack received a Jenkins security upgrade, fresh GitHub runners, and Mac M4 Qt build fixes.
Infra: Nimbus fleets finished storage migrations while mitigating REST API attacks and Clang build regressions.
Nescience: Wallet personalization PRs landed alongside deterministic seed-recovery work and new proving benchmarks.
Nescience: Privacy-preserving tail-calls progressed despite active Risc0 blockers, while Miden consulting docs shipped.
Coordinated Waku offsite syncs (KAD-DHT, Mix, De-MLS), set up a Grafana dashboard for Richard, added Sergio’s SSH access via infra-misc#437, and reviewed strategy material.
Continued QUIC experiments (tuning flags, FloodPublish, connection caps, and k8s resources) yet still saw instability and high CPU, recommending profiling to P2P.
Partnered with Ivan on nwaku v0.37 runs, proposing images with alternate nim-libp2p builds and per-protocol bandwidth metrics while Farooq iterated on log-levels and parsing scripts.
Refactored the bootstrap pipeline for Nim bin parametrization, fixed CI/test regressions, restored git metadata copying, and added instrumentation call trees across PRs #1514–#1511.
Refined the Logos discovery RFC draft, expanded the Vac forum post, and added lookup/advertise support inside the POC (logos-capability-discovery-poc#1).
Resolved STATUS-352 Jenkins executor issues, assessed the Balancer incident for Status impact, rotated tokens/secrets, and took down a phishing clone site.
ift:2025q4-vulma-and-ir:remediation-tracking
Closed Dependabot/CodeQL findings, synchronized lockfiles/SBOMs, and patched npm/crypto CVEs with partners.
ift:2025q4-finance-automation-enhancements
Monitored daily executions, supported ad-hoc requests, and completed final tests/approval for the new bank-data notification.
ift:2025q4-iam-operations:admin-audit
Tested the unified admin audit flow while documenting blockers around GitHub API access, Discord bots, and Notion endpoints.
admin/misc
Tracked Hackenproof updates and reviewed security engineering candidate profiles.
Improved custom CSS, added Vac blogs via Airbyte, and restored missing Logos Press Engine posts.
Finance Dashboard
Advanced Finance DBT balance processes (test data pending), aligned with Deivids/Nacho on the treasury dashboard, and sanity-checked transactions against etherscan.io.
RAG LLM
Updated chunk prefixes, fixed intermittent Qdrant HTTPS bugs, reloaded the newest data, refreshed the source-count dashboard, debugged YouTube metadata/transcripts, and raised a data-freshness alert as Qdrant grows.
Started Telegram extraction, built Discord notifications for the monthly report, enhanced the Discord Airbyte connector to fetch membership data, and resolved YubiKey SSH issues on Windows.
Swapped node-01 with spare-02, improved Agenix tooling, added ZFS usage helpers for key hosts, and fixed Cloudflare API token handling in the dev shell.
CI
Upgraded Jenkins for security fixes, resolved Qt build issues on the Mac M4 host, deployed additional GitHub self-hosted runners, and improved the runner metrics exporter.
STATUS
Fixed Brew bottle fetching for Windows/macOS builds, advanced the new Windows E2E setup, continued MatterBridge fork upgrades, bridged additional Status communities, and upgraded Squish on CI hosts.
NIMBUS
Completed storage migrations for the mainnet fleet, mitigated attacks on public REST API endpoints, researched Commit-Boost/MEV-Boost on Hoodi, and fixed Clang mismatch build failures.
SITES
Migrated psf.logos.co to ps.logos.co, progressed the Status Network Hub deployment, and fixed Vac RFC website build issues.
MISC
Deployed the new Finance SNT vesting tool, investigated missing Rootly SMS alerts, ordered the new Vac DST cluster (finance-approved), cleaned legacy Codex infra on Hetzner, and shipped Nix fixes for Zerokit/Nim-Waku packages.