QRL Weekly: New address format completed, 2025-August-26

Highlight: New address format completed!

By shortening addresses through descriptor and public key integration, we achieve better crypto-agility, improved usability, and seamless application compatibility.

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Old - QRL PoW
Before the descriptor was in the address format.
- Q010500b8601fb018af63f22b31854f649f32249ffd7c2e887d80694b458bd18ee6ca9f9806c016

New - QRL Project Zond
Now addresses are now the last 24 bytes of SHAKE256 hash of (descriptor+public key)
- Qc46f0bd621975bd2abd8dad468de1fb15c2dfc0fc923d173

Weekly Development Snapshot

Go-qrllib

• SPHINCS+-256s unit tests finished along with the wallet implementation
• Address prefix replaced from Z to Q
• Refactored code

Chrome Extension Wallet

• wallet_watchAsset rpc method implementation is in progress

Go-zond

• Name related changes finished for go-zond
• Changes are in progress to support SPHINCS+-256s and ML-DSA-87 in go-zond