QRL Weekly, 2026-August-21

Weekly Development Snapshot

Status / overview

• August 4th: Audit results published for go-qrllib
• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released
• Audits: 50% completion

QRL 2.0 (Project Zond)

qrysm

• Added missing payload parent hash validation
• Added several upstream fixes such as 16478, 17087,17110 and many more
• Pin the latest qrl-package and enable clef auto-approval
• Fix: set to the actual QRL deposit-contract block to 0
• Fix: Return an error from Keymanager.Sign on signing failure instead of a nil signature
• Fix: Cap DefaultBuilderGasLimit at go-qrl MaxGasLimit (20M)

go-qrl

• accounts/abi: move the Panic builtin selector to Panic(uint512)

web3.js

• local-testnet: use qrl-package clef dev accounts
• chore(lint): drop eslint-disable directives that suppress nothing
• feat: migrate ABI coding to VM64
• test: use distinct 64-byte QRL addresses in web3-rpc-methods fixtures
• test: migrate core and provider fixtures to VM64
• fix: hash VM storage slots as 64-byte words
• test: regenerate contract fixtures for VM64 with native hyperion

qrl-tests

• Added nightly build for with end-to-end tests for the QRL 2.0

qrl-package

• Pass importraw its flags after the subcommand
• Generate clef files with the remote signer’s image
• Raise the default genesis balance and move the tx spammer off the clef pool
• Provision ten clef development accounts
• Add automated clef approvals for the development account