Weekly Updates
QRL Weekly, 2026-April-24
Weekly Development Snapshot
Status / overview
- April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries. See Halborn Audit Validates QRL’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Library.
- March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released. See QRL Launches Post-Quantum Smart Contract Testnet Ahead of 2.0 Mainnet.
- Audits: Internal and External work ongoing
48-bytes Address
- Changes are in progress to support new address size in go-qrl and go-qrllib
Falcon
- Falcon-1024 is being implemented which will be used for p2p layer
Qrysm
- Bug fix are still in progress
Testing
- Successfully stress tested network with 952 (21,000 gas per transaction) transactions per block.
wallet.js
- added version and descriptor data to wallet context
- rebuilt and fixed cross-verification coverage around the new context format.
go-qrllib
- tightened Descriptor.IsValid() so only canonical ML-DSA-87 and SPHINCS+-256s wallet descriptors are accepted, with tests and docs updated to match.
rust-qrllib
- exploratory implementation to investigate webasm performance gains
zond-faucet
- Shipped initial QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Faucet release for internal testing
Audits
- Internal and External work ongoing
block-explorer[legacy]
- added supply-oriented API endpoints and cleaned up supply tracking and presentation
QRL Weekly, 2026-April-17
Weekly Development Snapshot
Status / overview
- April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries. See Halborn Audit Validates QRL’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Library.
- March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released. See QRL Launches Post-Quantum Smart Contract Testnet Ahead of 2.0 Mainnet.
- Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.
QRL Testnet V2 Test
- Upcoming Reset: A network reset will be made to implement the 48-byte address
48-bytes Address
- Ready: qrvmc, qrvmone, hyperion has been updated to support 48 bytes address
- In-progress: go-qrl, qrysm are being updated to support new address format
Qrysm
- Merged several upstream patches
- More tests added
- Update GensisValidatorsRoot for staking-deposit-cli
QRL Weekly, 2026-April-10
Weekly Development Snapshot
Status / overview
- April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries. See Halborn Audit Validates QRL’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Library.
- March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released. See QRL Launches Post-Quantum Smart Contract Testnet Ahead of 2.0 Mainnet.
- Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.
Qrysm
- Merged several upstream patches
Go-qrl
- Merged several upstream patches
- Update txMaxBroadcastSize to 16 KB, maxTxPacketSize to 256 KB, maxTxRetrievalSize to 256 KB and maxTxRetrievals to 32
- Increased softResponseLimit value to 10 MB + add more tests
- Fix: Testnet V2 NetworkID & ChainID
- Update CI/CD
- Release go-qrl with all tools
qrl-web3-wallet
- Update ChainID & ChainName
QRL Weekly, 2026-April-03
Weekly Development Snapshot
Status
- Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.
- Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries. See Halborn Audit Validates QRL’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Library.
- QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released. See QRL Launches Post-Quantum Smart Contract Testnet Ahead of 2.0 Mainnet.
- 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries.
Go-qrl
- Migrated CI/CD from circleci to github actions
- Embed Testnet v2 genesis block, bootstrap nodes
- Add gasLimit & gasUsed in log
- Update test
Web3.js
- Update upstream dependencies
- Update CI/CD
- Fix Errors
- Upgrade Typescript & Jest
- Released v0.4.0
wallet.js
- Remove redundant @typedef causing conflict for Descriptor
- Released v2.0.2
qrl-infra
- First phase completed, automatic deployment of several AWS instance along with monitoring and spammer node for stress and load testing
- Further stress and load testing is in progress
qrysm
- Update bootstrap address related to Testnet v2
- CI/CD development is in progress
qrl-web3-wallet
- Update upstream dependency such as @theqrl/web3.js, @theqrl/wallet.js etc. to latest versions
QRL Weekly, 2026-March-27
Weekly Development Snapshot
Status
- Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories.
- Audit process has begun.
- 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries.
Qrysm
- Add test for approximate max block size on consensus chain
- Update upstream dependencies: go-qrllib & go-qrl to latest version
Go-QRL
- Set initial base gas fee to 100 shor (minimum fee per gas unit)
- Add test for approximate max block size on execution chain
- Update upstream dependencies: go-qrllib to latest version
qrl-infra
- Being developed to automatically generate genesis, wallet & to spin up nodes with binaries like gqrl, beacon-chain, validator, transaction spammer on AWS for stress testing
tx-fuzz
- Update cryptography from Dilithium to ML-DSA-87
- Update upstream dependency: go-qrl to latest version
- Update tests
goqrvmlab
- Repo name changed from gozvmlab to goqrlvmlab
- Update upstream dependencies: go-qrllib & go-qrl to latest version
- Update code to new address format having prefix Q
- Update tests
QRL Weekly, 2026-March-20
Weekly Development Snapshot
Status
- Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories in preparation for the audit process.
- Second auditing vendor, engaged.
- 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries:
go-qrllib,qrypto.js, andwallet.js.
Qrysm
- Added reward & penalty assertions to simulation tests
Qrysm & Go-QRL
- Test in progress to compute maximum possible block size
- Load test development is in progress
qrl-web3-wallet
- Changes are in progress to replace zond with qrl
Explorer
- UI/UX being updated for token & address details page
- UI/UX being made for Charts & Statistics Page
QRL Weekly, 2026-March-13
Weekly Development Snapshot
Status
- Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories in preparation for the audit process.
- Second auditing vendor, engaged.
- 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries:
go-qrllib,qrypto.js, andwallet.js.
Qrysm
- Consensus name & fork name changed to Zond
- Renamed binaries from Zond to QRL + Fixed tests
- Dependency version updated
- Released new docker images
Go-QRL
- Fork name updated to Zond
- Repo name changed from go-zond to go-qrl
- Released new docker images
qrl-genesis-generator
- Updated Dockerfile
- Released new docker images
Documentation
- Documentation updated for Qrysm & Go-QRL API
Explorer
- Added new APIs - chain finality history, Deposits, Search filter
- Added sorting logic based on specific field on deposits and liveness
QRL Weekly, 2026-March-06
Weekly Development Snapshot
QRL 2.0 (Codenamed Project Zond)
Status
- Code freeze completed for all relevant repositories in preparation for the audit process.
- Auditing vendor, Trail of Bits, revealed.
- 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries:
go-qrllib,qrypto.js, andwallet.js.
Qrysm
- Sync committee members changed from 16 to 128 to improve the security for light clients
- More tests are being added
Go-zond
- More tests are being added
QRL Web3 Wallet
- Ledger App integrated
- Added NFT support
go-qrllib
- NIST test vector server now wired into go-qrllib CI.
Explorer
- Finalizing dashboard API
- Added redis cache for dashboard API
- Added redis cache for charts API’s
- Centralized pagination model across beacon API’s
Documentation
- Documentation is in progress for running qrysm and go-zond with different parameters
QRL Weekly, 2026-February-27
QRL Weekly, 2026-February-20
Weekly Development Snapshot
QRL 2 (Codenamed Project Zond)
Status
- Code freeze completed for 6 repositories in preparation for the audit process
- 100% code coverage achieved across essential cryptographic libraries:
go-qrllib,qrypto.js, andwallet.js.
Go-Zond (Execution Client)
- Documentation completed for 16+ core RPC API endpoints (including transactions, filters, and block receipts).
- Resiliency testing passed, successfully confirming the blockchain can recover and produce blocks after a 24+ hour stall.
- Upstream sync completed, integrating the latest transaction spec changes and codebase cleanups.
Qrysm (Consensus Client)
- Documentation completed for 18+ Beacon chain API endpoints (covering states, validators, committees, and rewards).
- Network parameters finalized for validator staking rewards, slashing penalties, and missing attestation penalities (sync committee parameters are currently in progress).
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