Last Week: Updated the chaining pipeline code/renaming for transaction updates; generated test suites for the pipeline using a large language model.
Coming Week: Audit the LLM-generated tests for the advance pipeline and verify all properties; draft a NIP establishing a formal process for handling hard fork disagreements; resolve pipeline conflicts.
Thorkil Værge
Last Week: Implemented restrictions within the chaining pipeline, including banning negative fees and altering claims; provided guidelines on LLM usage for test writing.
Coming Week: Release version 8 of Triton VM; review and greenlight Neptune wallet pull requests; participate in office day to merge Neptune core code.
3. Technical Discussion
Mempool Policy & Transaction Pipelines: The team finalized a mempool policy prioritizing single-proof transactions over link transactions to keep technical complexity low, foregoing a potential 25% speed increase achievable via link transaction caching. The operation to update link transactions was officially renamed from “update” to “advance.” Transaction pipeline integration spans four key areas: peer-to-peer sharing, mempool handling, transaction initiation (which uses unspent mempool outputs), and upgrader compatibility.
Chaining Pipeline Restrictions: Specific restrictions were added to the chaining pipeline, notably banning negative fees and altering claims. Code conflicts and pending integrations for neptune-core will be fixed next.
Hard Fork Governance: Established an unofficial policy setting a 2,000-block preparation window (approximately 2 weeks) prior to hard forks. To address concerns around formal governance, a new NIP will be drafted to outline procedures for community members expressing disagreement with proposed hard forks.
Neptune Wallet QR Code Support: Address generation in the Neptune wallet now supports QR codes accommodating over 4,000 characters. This comfortably satisfies the 2,700-character requirement across generation, elliptic curve hybrid, and viewing addresses.
4. Updates and Announcements
Community voting in the development Telegram channel officially set “Neptune cash” as the required prefix for the NIP 2 payment standard.
NIP 1 (Stratum) remains inactive.
Triton VM version 8 release is slated for immediate publication as a priority task.
