IFT-TS Roadmaps and Reports

2026-08-31 IFT-TS weekly

12 min read

0
Teams
0
GitHub Links
Link Types:GitHubInternal (roadmap.vac.dev)ExternalTask ID

IFT-TS 2026/08/31

top highlights

  • P2P team advanced the nim-libp2p v2.3.1 release with libplum v0.6.3.
  • WEB team implemented the responsive Chat Control landing page.
  • SEC team reported seven new Logos Blockchain findings and updated the external audit scope.

team highlights

  • BI: Added Reddit extraction, dbt models, and advertising and blog-visit graphs for Keycard.
  • BI: Finalized the Logos Movement stream dashboard and added Logos Blockchain data extractions.
  • BI: Advanced Status SDK 1.1.4, Hermes integration, and engagement-bot testing.
  • DST: Scaled the Blend testnet to five block-producing nodes while Tempo remained empty.
  • DST: Isolated concurrent host workloads as the likely cause of inconsistent slow-proof CPU performance.
  • DST: Improved the libp2p regression-node structure after coordinating with the P2P team.
  • DST: Merged deployment-affinity helpers and advanced 10ksim plotting and scrape-interval improvements.
  • DST: Merged the latest anoncomms service-discovery scenario updates.
  • INFRA: Detected a remote-execution attack against Gitea, restored a clean backup, upgraded, and rotated secrets.
  • INFRA: Deployed Logos Delivery module upgrades and progressed Logos Basecamp code-signing verification.
  • INFRA: Reduced Alibaba Cloud traffic costs through billing changes and removed Waku and Status Elastic IPs.
  • INFRA: Improved Status build and test infrastructure and reduced fleet database costs.
  • INFRA: Deployed new OVH metrics infrastructure to lower costs.
  • INFRA: Split HQ logging and metrics hosts and upgraded Wazuh monitoring.
  • NIM: Improved Nimble SAT-budget reporting, version-range filtering, package lookup, and PubGrub error integration.
  • NIM: Advanced nim-json-rpc correctness and UTF-8 validation across core libraries.
  • NIM: Finished the Nim book pull request and added include-directive code support.
  • NIM: Reviewed four stale langserver pull requests.
  • NIM: Reported a Nim JavaScript regression.
  • P2P: Advanced the nim-libp2p v2.3.1 release and downstream dependency updates.
  • P2P: Improved buffer-stream, Kademlia, CI, and QUIC reliability.
  • P2P: Advanced generated C bindings and simplified nim-ffi support code.
  • P2P: Advanced the Logos Delivery opt-in networking backend integration.
  • P2P: Added flagged dial-candidate collection and advanced overlapping ranked dialing with name resolution.
  • QA: Expanded Logos Basecamp MCP UI automation and workspace coverage.
  • QA: Advanced Logos Execution Zone sequencer-registration scenarios and prerequisite coverage.
  • QA: Expanded AutoTLS integration and renewal coverage and reported two defects.
  • QA: Extended Status Desktop Keycard settings and login coverage.
  • QA: Root-caused Status Mobile gate outages and prepared stability fixes.
  • QA: Validated Status Mobile 2.39.0-rc.2 performance on two devices.
  • SEC: Reported seven new Logos Blockchain findings.
  • SEC: Updated the Logos Blockchain external audit scope.
  • TKE: Coordinated the greenlight process for a new wave of liquidity-provider prizes.
  • TKE: Consolidated governance objectives and direction into one document.
  • TKE: Continued wrapped-assets research and re-reviewed the bridge RFP.
  • TKE: Provided ad hoc Logos Execution Zone research and support.
  • TKE: Started preparing an Amsterdam talk.
  • WEB: Implemented the responsive Chat Control landing page and refined button-tracking events.
  • WEB: Investigated sub-second Status website loading and built IFT Pulse monitoring with email alerts.
  • WEB: Completed additional Status website canonical and technical SEO fixes.
  • WEB: Fixed underpriced and stuck Status Wallet Extension transactions.
  • WEB: Defined the Logos funnel one-pager upload flow and started its email and endpoint implementation.
  • WEB: Improved Logos newsletter auto-reply filtering.

ift-ts:bi:

ift-ts:dst:

ift-ts:infra:

  • DEVELP
    • Deployed a new metrics host on OVH to lower costs.
  • LIDO
    • Removed the deprecated Bloxroute Max-Profit relay.
    • Reinstalled master-03 through master-06 as new Geth and Neth workers.
    • Bootstrapped new TeraSwitch hosts in the TYO2 data center.
    • Began applying nixpkgs upgrades to the new Lido hosts.
  • STAKING
    • Addressed an incorrect OVH manual-host-renewal warning email.
  • NIMBUS
    • Fixed unopened QUIC protocol ports on several Hoodi hosts.
    • Added a fallback flag for cases where the Nix cache is unavailable.
    • Resolved a Reth archive-node static-files storage issue.
    • Investigated using flock to reduce the risk of disabling doppelganger protection.
    • Set up ERE file generation on Nimbus testnet fleets.
  • LOGOS
    • Purchased CodeSign for Logos Basecamp; verification is in progress.
    • Deployed Logos Delivery module upgrades and discussed deployment automation.
  • WAKU
    • Removed Alibaba Cloud Elastic IPs from Waku and Status nodes.
  • STATUS
    • Set up Ansible deployment for Status Bot and added the engagement feature.
    • Advanced the Nix build shell for the Linux Status app.
    • Set up serial job runs to reduce CI runtimes.
    • Scaled down oversized database instances to lower fleet costs.
    • Applied GCC upgrades to Status build Docker images.
    • Researched running offscreen Squish tests without Xvfb on Linux.
  • PROXY
    • Researched content-caching issues on self-hosted websites.
  • MISC
    • Reduced Alibaba Cloud traffic costs by changing the billing method.
    • Researched reserved instances and gp3 volumes for further cost optimization.
    • Addressed the new APT repository configuration format and fixed rsyslog issues.
  • SITES
    • Helped with Google Analytics DNS verification and setup.
    • Advanced automated website deployment through Caddy-Git CI jobs.
  • OFFICE
    • Continued research into upgrading and scaling Jitsi for large events.
  • CI
    • Detected a CVE-2026-59774 remote-execution attack against the Gitea archive.
    • Upgraded Gitea to 1.27.2, restored the oldest backup, and rotated secrets.
    • Debugged very slow artifact uploads on Jenkins Windows workers.
    • Upgraded Java OpenJDK for the Jenkins Agent service on all hosts.
    • Enabled Consul Agent log-storage settings on Windows workers.
    • Fixed Windows E2E failures caused by a Docker popup using a BAT wrapper.
    • Deployed the Protobuf upgrade required for status-go changes.
    • Set up the GitHub Actions exporter for the new logos-co GitHub Enterprise organization.
  • HQ
    • Enabled SSL transport security in the Elasticsearch cluster.
    • Created Elasticsearch accounts for Logstash, Kibana, and the BI team.
    • Detected and removed stale, broken Consul DNS records.
    • Fixed broken OAuth Consul containers after Elastic IP removal.
    • Split the dashboard host into separate logging and metrics hosts.
    • Upgraded the Wazuh monitoring cluster and regenerated certificates.

ift-ts:nim:

ift-ts:p2p:

ift-ts:qa:

ift-ts:sec:

ift-ts:tke:

  • vac:tke:ift:ecodev:xprize
    • Held a coordination meeting to greenlight a new wave of liquidity-provider prizes.
    • Reviewed new prizes.
  • vac:tke:ift:support-to-ift-units:governance
    • Consolidated the identified objectives and direction into a single document.
  • vac:tke:ift:ecodev:wrapped-assets
    • Conducted research for Rahul.
    • Re-reviewed the bridge RFP.
  • vac:tke:ift:ecodev:ethereum-state-lez
    • Provided ad hoc support and research.
  • vac:tke:ift:ecodev:amsterdam-talk
    • Began preparing the talk.

ift-ts:web:

Graph View