How QRL’s Project Zond Will Onboard the Next Wave of Developers – AMA with Lead Developer Kaushal

Weekly Updates

QRL Weekly, 2025-February-04

Weekly Development Snapshot

Vortex IDE & Web3 wallet - Implemented rpc handlers for zond_accounts, zond_requestAccounts, zond_getBalance, zond_estimateGas, zond_blockNumber, wallet_revokePermissions along with UI refactoring.
E2ETests are updated for large number of transactions and the issues failing the tests are being fixed.
Tool is being developed to start a private network of the Zond locally.
Ledger Device: Signing related to Smart Contract is still in progress.

QRL Weekly, 2025-January-28

Weekly Development Snapshot

Vortex IDE is now able to connect zond chrome extension wallet.
E2ETests are in progress to simulate the new Block reward.
wallet.js and qrypto.js refactoring in progress for XMSS related changes.
Ledger Device: Token signing and other UI/UX development is still in progress.

QRL Weekly, 2025-January-21

Weekly Development Snapshot

Vortex IDE: Terminal issue has been fixed. JSON RPC api are being fixed.
Stress tests added into the Qrysm to simulate 2600+ validators.
E2ETests are in progress to simulate the new Block reward.
Ledger Device: Dilithium signing is now working. Token signing and other UI/UX development in progress.

QRL Weekly, 2025-January-14

Weekly Development Snapshot

New address format related changes finished for Hyperion, Zond & Qrysm.
Vortex IDE: Test support added into IDE, currently terminal is being fixed.
Stress tests are being added into the Qrysm to simulate 2600+ validators.
E2ETests are in progress to simulate the new Block reward.
Ledger Device: Bug fixes for signing algorithm & optimization still in progress.

QRL Weekly, 2025-January-07

Weekly Development Snapshot

New address format related changes are still in progress in Hyperion, Zond, Qrysm & Web3.js
Vortex IDE: Smart Contract deployment is functional on VortexIDE, currently making changes to support tests on the IDE.
E2ETests are in progress to simulate the new Block reward.
Ledger Device: Signing algorithm optimization still in progress.

QRL Weekly, 2024-December-24

Weekly Development Snapshot

Updates related name changes still in progress for qrysm, web3.js, go-zond
Remix IDE compiler is working after the modification, currently changes are in progress for deployment via IDE.
E2ETests are in progress to simulate the new Block reward.
Ledger Devices: Ledger app is now able to generate Dilithium public key and secret key after optimization, currently Dilithium signing is crashing due to memory issues, and is being optimized.

QRL Weekly, 2024-December-17

Weekly Development Snapshot

Updates related name changes still in progress for qrysm, web3.js, go-zond
Integrated Zond web3 library to the Remix IDE, other required changes to make Remix IDE compatible with Zond is still in progress
E2ETests is in progress to simulate the new Block reward
Ledger Devices: Ledger app crashes during the Dilithium key generation due to memory issues, currently optimizing and re-writing key generation algorithm for efficient memory consumption.

QRL Weekly, 2024-December-10

Weekly Development Snapshot

Finished some of the name changes related updates such as EVM to QVM, Solidity to Hyperion along with the unit tests
Updates related name changes still in progress for qrysm, web3.js, go-zond
Remix IDE is being updated to support Zond
E2ETests is in progress to simulate the new Block reward

QRL Weekly, 2024-December-03

Weekly Development Snapshot

Reviewed and merged changes relevant to Zond address format
Calculated approximate initial block reward per slot.
Calculated approximate initial block reward per slot.
Updating qrysm end to end tests to support long hours testing (2+ hours) with 2625 validators and to simulate validators reward and emission rate.

QRL Weekly, 2024-November-26

Weekly Development Snapshot

EVM new address support is in progress along with the unit tests.
Reviewing changes for Javascript cryptography library implementation & wallet implementation of XMSS
Zond, Qrysm & Web3.js updated to support new address format.
E2ETests is in progress to simulate the new Block reward.

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