# Dev Update 24 June 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** News and Announcements\ **Tags:** dev-updates\ **Created:** [June 24, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/dev-update-24-june-2025/78 "2025-06-24T05:45:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neptune-team](https://talk.neptune.cash/user_avatar/talk.neptune.cash/neptune-team/32/18_2.png) [@neptune-team](https://talk.neptune.cash/u/neptune-team)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/dev-update-24-june-2025/78/1 "2025-06-24T05:45:37Z")
![neptune-banner](https://talk.neptune.cash/uploads/default/original/1X/3e76822acc7dcfcb498d95fe5340996dc945ea98.jpeg) ### Last week by the numbers **neptune-core** - [30 commits to master branch](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/commits/master/?since=2025-06-15&until=2025-06-22) - [2 issues closed](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/issues?q=is:issue+state:closed+closed:2025-06-15..2025-06-22) - [5 pull requests raised](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/issues?q=is:pr+created:2025-06-15..2025-06-22) - [9 pull requests merged](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/issues?q=is:pr+merged:2025-06-15..2025-06-22) **twenty-first** - [11 commits to master branch](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/twenty-first/commits/master/?since=2025-06-15&until=2025-06-22) - [4 pull requests raised](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/twenty-first/issues?q=is:pr+created:2025-06-15..2025-06-22) - [4 pull requests merged](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/twenty-first/issues?q=is:pr+merged:2025-06-15..2025-06-22) **triton-vm** - [4 commits to master branch](https://github.com/TritonVM/triton-vm/commits/master/?since=2025-06-15&until=2025-06-22) **triton-tui** - [1 commit to master branch](https://github.com/TritonVM/triton-tui/commits/master/?since=2025-06-15&until=2025-06-22) **triton-cli** - [2 commits to main branch](https://github.com/TritonVM/triton-cli/commits/main/?since=2025-06-15&until=2025-06-22) **tasm-lib** - [2 commits to master branch](https://github.com/TritonVM/tasm-lib/commits/master/?since=2025-06-15&until=2025-06-22) ## Neptune Happenings ### Community PRs Merged: Tests and Mining Pool Improvements Two community members contributed 5 PRs that were merged into `neptune-core` this week. Highlights: - [#615](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/pull/615) separates unit tests into smaller modules which is a win for maintainability. - [#608](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/pull/608) adds some flushing to prevent RAM issues on smaller machines. - [#609](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/pull/609) provides an RPC endpoint to find the block where a UTXO originates A big thanks to github users _KaffinPX_ and _skaunov_ for their contributions. ### Mempool Improvements merged The [recent changes to the mempool](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/pull/610) remove the incentive for composers to _not_ include transactions in their mempool. This improves the overall chances that a transaction gets mined. ### Hard Fork 2 Work is progressing towards Hard Fork 2. The code is compiling but lacks consensus programs in Triton assembly code. ### NTT Speed Up New versions of [`twenty-first`](https://crates.io/crates/twenty-first), [`triton-vm`](https://crates.io/crates/triton-vm), and [`tasm-lib`](https://crates.io/crates/tasm-lib) crates were published that include a [significant speedup of (i)NTT](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/twenty-first/pull/260), the finite-field version of the Fast Fourier Transform. In particular, NTT itself got faster by 45%. This directly translates to faster proof generation [by about 7%](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/twenty-first/pull/260#issuecomment-2970070582). ### AVX Vectorization Integration Work has begun to integrate a vectorized (in particular, [AVX-512](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512)) version of the [Tip5 hash function](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/107) into the Neptune ecosystem. This has the potential to speed up hash operations significantly (we estimate ~50%) on capable machines. We expect this to boost proof generation by another ~3%. ### Contributor Updates @jfs - [dual-license Triton VM](https://github.com/TritonVM/triton-vm/commit/c012d3adf8bd97d65d22e55a8489bb12126b5da4) to MIT OR Apache-2.0 - remove dead code from `twenty-first` & `triton-vm` - improve documentation in `twenty-first` - [make a Merkle tree helper function generic](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/twenty-first/pull/264) to simplify its use in Neptune core - propagate recent changes from `twenty-first` through `triton-vm` and `tasm-lib` into `neptune-core` - start integrating AVX-512-accelerated Tip5 into `twenty-first` @danda: - started neptune-types library crate - worked on getting twenty-first to build and pass tests with wasm32 target. - raised PR for proptest-arbitrary-interop - raised PR for twenty-first