Weekly Updates

Weekly Development Snapshot

QRL 2.0 (Codenamed Project Zond)

Status

• Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories in preparation for the audit process.
• Auditing vendor, Trail of Bits, revealed.
• 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries: go-qrllib, qrypto.js, and wallet.js.

Qrysm

• Sync committee members changed from 16 to 128 to improve the security for light clients
• More tests are being added

Go-zond

• More tests are being added

QRL Web3 Wallet

• Ledger App integrated
• Added NFT support

go-qrllib

• NIST test vector server now wired into go-qrllib CI.

Explorer

• Finalizing dashboard API
• Added redis cache for dashboard API
• Added redis cache for charts API’s
• Centralized pagination model across beacon API’s

Documentation

• Documentation is in progress for running qrysm and go-zond with different parameters

Weekly Development Snapshot

QRL 2 (Codenamed Project Zond)

Status

• Code freeze completed for 6 repositories in preparation for the audit process
• 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries: go-qrllib, qrypto.js, and wallet.js.

Go-Zond (Execution Client)

• Documentation completed for 16+ core RPC API endpoints (including transactions, filters, and block receipts).
• Resiliency testing passed, successfully confirming the blockchain can recover and produce blocks after a 24+ hour stall.
• Upstream sync completed, integrating the latest transaction spec changes and codebase cleanups.

Qrysm (Consensus Client)

• Documentation completed for 18+ Beacon chain API endpoints (covering states, validators, committees, and rewards).
• Network parameters finalized for validator staking rewards, slashing penalties, and missing attestation penalities (sync committee parameters are currently in progress).

Weekly Development Snapshot

QRL 2 (Codenamed Project Zond)

• Code freeze completed for 6 repositories in preparation for the audit process

qrl-genesis-generator

• Added “slots per epoch” parameter.

qrl-tx-spammer

• Added wallet seed standard and updated toolchain.

web3.js

• Updated transaction specs, migrated tests, and fixed ports.

wallet.js

• Upgraded to Node.js 20+ and latest dependencies.
• Refined build process and added bundle smoke tests.
• Updated dependency and workflow versions.

go-qrllib

• Updated Go version requirements to 1.24+.
• Enhanced security, zeroization, and error handling.

qrypto.js

• Moved Wallaby configurations to root level.
• Updated dilithium5 and mldsa87 builds for dual ESM/CJS.
• Set minimum Node.js version to 20.19.0.

QRL 1.x

Explorer

• Corrected currency unit in CSV export header.
• Improved error handling for richlist data retrieval.
• UI Improvements

wallet-helpers

• fix: isDeepStrictEqual -> custom sameKeys fn
• Updated project dependencies.
• Bumped code version.
• Implemented final V3 wallet.

Weekly Development Snapshot

Qrysm

• Parameter for slashing penalty and whistleblower reward has been finalized
• Parameter adjustment in progress for sync committee members
• Documentation finished for the following Qrysm API’s
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/genesis
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/root
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/fork
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/finality_checkpoints
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/validators
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/validators/{validator_id}
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/validator_balances
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/committees
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/sync_committees
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/randao
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/headers
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/headers/{block_id}
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/blocks/{block_id}
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/blocks/{block_id}/root
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/blocks/{block_id}/attestations
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/rewards/sync_committee/{block_id}
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/rewards/blocks/{block_id}
  • /qrl/v1/beacon/rewards/attestations/{epoch}

Beacon chain / Consensus Layer’s Explorer

• Frontend related bugs are being fixed for both explorers
• Indexer finished for both explorers
• API development is still in progress that is used by explorer to access indexed data

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-Zond

• Documentation finished for the following Go-Zond RPC API
  • qrl_getProof
  • qrl_createAccessList
  • qrl_feeHistory
  • qrl_fillTransaction
  • qrl_maxPriorityFeePerGas
  • qrl_pendingTransactions
  • qrl_getBlockReceipts
  • qrl_getHeaderByHash
  • qrl_getHeaderByNumber
  • qrl_getFilterChanges
  • qrl_getFilterLogs
  • qrl_getLogs
  • qrl_newFilter
  • qrl_newBlockFilter
  • qrl_newPendingTransactionFilter
  • qrl_uninstallFilter
• More tests are being added
• RPC API documentation is in progress

Beacon chain / Consensus Layer’s Explorer

• CI/CD Pipeline finished for the deployment
• Pages related to forked beacon blocks & Epoch list are in progress
• Slots detail page & beacon block list with search filter are in progress
• Indexer finished for block page

Qrysm

• Parameters for penalty during missing attestation with and without leak has been finalized
• Parameter for other kinds of penalty & whistleblower reward is being reviewed

Zond Web3 Wallet

• UI/UX revamp in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

go-qrllib

• Achieved 100% code coverage

qrypto.js

• Achieved 100% code coverage

wallet.js

• Achieved 100% code coverage

Web3 Wallet dApp Example

• QRL 2.0 RPC Implementation: Added support for over 30 zond_ and wallet_ JSON-RPC methods, including key functionalities like zond_sendTransaction, zond_call, wallet_switchZondChain, and various filter/subscription methods.
• UI/UX Improvements: Enhanced the user interface with updated cards, banners, and tooltips, while adding “No Wallet Detected” handling, better error alerts, and disabled states for unconnected functions.
• Refactoring & Documentation: Performed a major codebase refactor by moving components and methods to dedicated files, alongside extensive documentation updates to reflect the new RPC capabilities.

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-Zond

• RPC API documentation is in progress

Qrysm

• Parameters for penalty during leak and without leak is being reviewed
• Test to simulate penalty under different scenario is in progress

Execution Layer Explorer

• Verified Contracts page along with filter data implemented
• More API development to expose data further in the explorer is in progress

Beacon chain / Consensus Layer’s Explorer

• Consensus layer’s explorer front & back end development is in progress
• Indexer development has commenced

Zond Web3 Wallet

• UI/UX revamp in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

Qrysm

• Parameters related to validator reward has been finalized
• Parameters for penalty is being reviewed
• Test to simulate reward and penalty under different scenario is in progress

Execution Layer Explorer

• UI/UX design completed
• Verified Contracts page along with filter data implemented
• More API development to expose data further in the explorer is in progress

Consensus Layer Explorer

• UI/UX design completed
• Consensus layer’s explorer front end development is in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-zond

• Transaction Spec changes and small fixes/improvements/cleanup from upstream

Qrysm

• Attestor, Block Proposer & Sync committee - reward simulation is in progress to adjust the staking reward value

Explorer

• Bug fix with the pagination
• Tested backend flow from blocks, transactions, token fetch
• Mobile UI/UX development for explorer webpage is in progress