Weekly Updates

Weekly Development Snapshot

Status / overview

• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries. See Halborn Audit Validates QRL’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Library.
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released. See QRL Launches Post-Quantum Smart Contract Testnet Ahead of 2.0 Mainnet.
• Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.

QRL Testnet V2 Test

• Upcoming Reset: A network reset will be made to implement the 48-byte address

48-bytes Address

• Ready: qrvmc, qrvmone, hyperion has been updated to support 48 bytes address
• In-progress: go-qrl, qrysm are being updated to support new address format

Qrysm

• Merged several upstream patches
• More tests added
• Update GensisValidatorsRoot for staking-deposit-cli

Weekly Development Snapshot

Status / overview

• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries. See Halborn Audit Validates QRL’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Library.
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released. See QRL Launches Post-Quantum Smart Contract Testnet Ahead of 2.0 Mainnet.
• Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.

Qrysm

• Merged several upstream patches

Go-qrl

• Merged several upstream patches
• Update txMaxBroadcastSize to 16 KB, maxTxPacketSize to 256 KB, maxTxRetrievalSize to 256 KB and maxTxRetrievals to 32
• Increased softResponseLimit value to 10 MB + add more tests
• Fix: Testnet V2 NetworkID & ChainID
• Update CI/CD
• Release go-qrl with all tools

qrl-web3-wallet

• Update ChainID & ChainName

Weekly Development Snapshot

Status

• Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.
• Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries. See Halborn Audit Validates QRL’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Library.
• QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released. See QRL Launches Post-Quantum Smart Contract Testnet Ahead of 2.0 Mainnet.
• 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries.

Go-qrl

• Migrated CI/CD from circleci to github actions
• Embed Testnet v2 genesis block, bootstrap nodes
• Add gasLimit & gasUsed in log
• Update test

Web3.js

• Update upstream dependencies
• Update CI/CD
• Fix Errors
• Upgrade Typescript & Jest
• Released v0.4.0

wallet.js

• Remove redundant @typedef causing conflict for Descriptor
• Released v2.0.2

qrl-infra

• First phase completed, automatic deployment of several AWS instance along with monitoring and spammer node for stress and load testing
• Further stress and load testing is in progress

qrysm

• Update bootstrap address related to Testnet v2
• CI/CD development is in progress

qrl-web3-wallet

• Update upstream dependency such as @theqrl/web3.js, @theqrl/wallet.js etc. to latest versions

Weekly Development Snapshot

Status

• Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.
• Audit process has begun.
• 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries.

Qrysm

• Add test for approximate max block size on consensus chain
• Update upstream dependencies: go-qrllib & go-qrl to latest version

Go-QRL

• Set initial base gas fee to 100 shor (minimum fee per gas unit)
• Add test for approximate max block size on execution chain
• Update upstream dependencies: go-qrllib to latest version

qrl-infra

• Being developed to automatically generate genesis, wallet & to spin up nodes with binaries like gqrl, beacon-chain, validator, transaction spammer on AWS for stress testing

tx-fuzz

• Update cryptography from Dilithium to ML-DSA-87
• Update upstream dependency: go-qrl to latest version
• Update tests

goqrvmlab

• Repo name changed from gozvmlab to goqrlvmlab
• Update upstream dependencies: go-qrllib & go-qrl to latest version
• Update code to new address format having prefix Q
• Update tests

Weekly Development Snapshot

Status

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

Qrysm

• Added reward & penalty assertions to simulation tests

Qrysm & Go-QRL

• Test in progress to compute maximum possible block size
• Load test development is in progress

qrl-web3-wallet

• Changes are in progress to replace zond with qrl

Explorer

• UI/UX being updated for token & address details page
• UI/UX being made for Charts & Statistics Page

Weekly Development Snapshot

Status

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

Qrysm

• Consensus name & fork name changed to Zond
• Renamed binaries from Zond to QRL + Fixed tests
• Dependency version updated
• Released new docker images

Go-QRL

• Fork name updated to Zond
• Repo name changed from go-zond to go-qrl
• Released new docker images

qrl-genesis-generator

• Updated Dockerfile
• Released new docker images

Documentation

• Documentation updated for Qrysm & Go-QRL API

Explorer

• Added new APIs - chain finality history, Deposits, Search filter
• Added sorting logic based on specific field on deposits and liveness

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.