Weekly Updates

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• SPHINCS+-256s key pair generation algorithm completed. Sign function implementation is in progress.

Chrome Extension Wallet

• wallet_addZondChain and wallet_switchZondChain is in progress

Go-zond

• KDF for wallet encryption is being replaced from scrypt to Argond2id

Explorer

• Explorer UI and backend integration with some bug fixes are still in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• Hash Based cryptography implementation in progress

Other updates

• Some of the API for explorer integration are being fixed
• Explorer Backend and Front-end integration is in progress
• More RPC methods added to Chrome Extension wallet - zond_newBlockFilter, zond_newFilter, zond_newPendingTransactionFilter, zond_uninstallFilter, zond_getFilterLogs, zond_getFilterChanges, zond_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex, zond_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• Hash Based cryptography implementation in progress

Other updates

• API being developed to support zond subscribe and unsubscribe over HTTP
• Explorer Backend and Front-end integration is in progress
• Explorer API documented using swagger

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• XMSS cryptography updates are still in progress

Other updates

• Seed Storage along with encryption is being added in Zond Web3 Wallet
• qrysm p2p is being reviewed
• API Adjustment & bug fixes for Zond blockchain data parser to database.

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• Updating XMSS cryptography with latest changes in go-qrllib

Other updates

• Code added to process ERC-4337 tokens into database
• New RPC functions zond_chainId, zond_getTransactionCount, zond_gasPrice and zond_getBlockByHash implemented in Zond Web3 Extension

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• Updating XMSS cryptography with latest changes in go-qrllib

Other updates

• Custom message signing functionality added in Zond Web3 Wallet
• Code added to process ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155 tokens into database

Weekly Development Snapshot

QRL

• Resolved public API (gRPC) connection exhaustion issue by using middleware

Go-qrllib

• Updating XMSS cryptography with latest changes in go-qrllib

Other updates

• Custom message signing functionality is being added in Zond Web3 Wallet along with the UI changes
• API and backend code are being developed to process Smart Contract based Internal transaction into database

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• Updated Dilithium 5 to ML-DSA-87 both cryptography & wallet
• Updated unit tests
• XMSS related update with latest implementation is in progress

Other updates

• Zond units (such as ZND, Zond, Planck) has been updated to all repositories
• New address size of 24 bytes are being updated

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib updates

• Implemented new address format of 24 bytes instead of 20 bytes to eliminate ambiguity with Ethereum related blockchains
• Address generation algorithm changed for both XMSS and Dilithium
• Added 3 bytes descriptor which is a bit different from the legacy QRL descriptor, to differentiate between cryptography used for signing & metadata related to cryptography
• Verify function for both XMSS and Dilithium will now need descriptor
• Cryptography and wallet implementation has been separated out into different packages
• Legacy XMSS wallet implementation has been separated out into a different package, along with the new XMSS wallet implementation for Zond.
• More unit tests added

Other updates

• Unit changes for Zond web3.js in progress
• zondjs a new repository being developed for VortexIDE
• API and backend code are being developed to fetch and store data from Zond blockchain to database

Weekly Development Snapshot

• go-qrllib - Address size changed from 20 bytes to 24 bytes to differentiate it from other blockchains having address of 20 bytes
• go-qrllib - XMSS & Dilithium refactoring is still in progress, unit tests has been updated for the currently refactored code
• Units for Zond has been updated in go-zond, qrysm, hyperion, web3.js, tx-fuzz. Unit-related updates for other repositories are currently under review.