August 4, 2026
C7.1 Crash Recovery certified. A restarted node can now recover
from its persisted finalized anchor, verify every missing certified block against
the exact production validation rules, and converge to the same finalized state as
the live cluster — without exercising protocol authority during recovery. 16/16
harness assertions, zero skipped.
Negative control proven: three unauthorized signers injected, correctly rejected
with no state mutation. Catch-up enforces the same designated-attester and
panel-eligibility rules as live ingestion. Authority muting verified: zero
proposals, attestations, signatures, or local QCs while Recovering.
August 4, 2026
Ratification integrity repair. Located and fixed a consensus bug
where panel derivation was node-relative — different nodes computed different
designated-attester panels from the same participant set. The derivation is now
deterministic: identical pools produce identical panels, verified offline across all
six callers. Domain-separated signature binding ties attestations to exact block
content. Full Ed25519 verification on the live QC path.
August 2, 2026
Forensic instrumentation. Structured diagnostic output on every
catch-up and live rejection: per-signer panel membership, required-attester
peer-table detail (last seen, heartbeat epoch, public-key availability),
peer-table snapshot, and state-root context. The harness captures the exact
moment and cause of the first post-recovery canonical-chain rejection.
July 15, 2026
Two nodes, peered. The Z4 in Florida and the relay in Germany
are connected and exchanging gossip across the Atlantic. The economic layer is
active — the receipt-gated mint is running — and correctly produces 0 DUUs.
Contribution requires a third party, and there isn't one yet.
The landing page now shows honest telemetry for the first time: real node
counts, real locations, no fabricated numbers. The architecture pages describe
what runs, not what might run someday.
July 15, 2026
Phase 6 wired. The receipt-gated mint is operational. Relay
receipts now correctly attest to genuine relay work (source ≠ propagation).
Self-reported minting — a Phase 5 placeholder — is gated to test-only.
The economic layer no longer manufactures value from one perspective.