Operational Transparency

Developer Journal

Live engineering ledger for VEIL mainnet infrastructure, companion EVM recovery, validator operations, and launch-gate evidence status.

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Latest Entry

Companion Bootstrap Recovery + RPC Gateway Cutover

VEILvm block production remains live; companion EVM explorer/RPC will resume once bootstrap quorum is back online.

Decision

GO FOR PRODUCTION

Open Gates

Journal Entries

Last Update

2026-02-24

Current Build Status

12 / 13

Launch Gate Snapshot

Companion bootstrap gate remains in progress while node state sync completes

GO FOR PRODUCTION

Production Decision

Authority: launch checklist decision line (2026-02-22)

Enforced

Private Admission Path

Proof-verified actions only (consensus rule)

Threshold Keying Active (Primary + Secondary)

Mempool Privacy

PASS (local): tkroll-20260222-190103

Live / Peered (2 Nodes)

Child Validator Connectivity

Operator NodeID-BRW... <-> Child NodeID-A4... connected=true

Engineering Principles

Principle 01

Truth Before Hype

We only claim capabilities that are implemented and evidenced. If a launch gate is pending, we publish it as pending.

Principle 02

Fail-Closed by Default

If privacy or proof conditions are not met, execution is rejected. We do not run permissive fallback paths in strict mode.

Principle 03

VM-First Privacy

Core privacy and economic invariants are enforced in VeilVM consensus, while EVM rails are interoperability surfaces.

Principle 04

Gate-Based Launch Discipline

Launch posture is evidence-gated: GO is only valid when every required gate is PASS with archived evidence. Current checklist state is GO FOR PRODUCTION (2026-02-22).

Timeline

In Progress2026-02-24

Companion Bootstrap Recovery + RPC Gateway Cutover

Both companion EVM nodes were restarted onto clean bootstrap paths and are actively progressing through state-trie synchronization. Public RPC ingress has been upgraded behind a unified gateway, and Cloudflare tunnel routes are now pinned to gateway health/info endpoints. Companion RPC remains intentionally unavailable (503) until bootstrap and subnet readiness complete.

Dev briefing: VEILvm block production remains live; companion EVM explorer/RPC will resume once bootstrap quorum is back online.

Completed2026-02-24

Mainnet + Child Node Pair Live and Peered

Recovered live child-validator connectivity end-to-end by correcting staking tunnel routing (operator 9661), aligning child runtime to avalanchego/1.12.2, and installing the VEIL VM plugin on child host. Operator and child now report mutual peer links and the child validator shows connected=true on the active primary set.

Dev briefing: Connectivity is no longer bridge-only preflight; the operator-child pair is now live and peered.

Completed2026-02-23

Live Transparency Push Verified

The transparency/devlog surface was pushed through production deploy and verified live on veil.markets so current validator status is no longer local-only.

Dev briefing: This update confirms the journal is now live in production with the child-validator connectivity state.

Completed2026-02-23

Child Validator Connectivity Blocker Cleared

Operator staking and RPC reachability from child sandbox is now live through deterministic bridge mode: veil-staking.thesecretlab.app and veil-rpc-tcp.thesecretlab.app are tunneled and verified from child sidecars (127.0.0.1:29651 and 127.0.0.1:29660).

Dev briefing: Topology blocker is cleared; remaining blocker is validator registration/activation transaction execution parameters.

Completed2026-02-22

Operator Execution Aligned to Launched Self-Host Chain

Runtime routing is now pinned to the launched self-host chain aQ8Ct8Hwwn71EeJw2eyPQJhu8mwHVoyGT8dDGgGu3svQAGSWs. Router health reports the same chain target and platform lifecycle status remains Validating.

Dev briefing: Router target and launched chain are now aligned, with self-host execution evidence archived.

Completed2026-02-22

GO FOR PRODUCTION + Self-Host UUP Launch Executed

Launch sign-off rows were completed (6/6 PASS), decision state moved to GO FOR PRODUCTION, and a live CreateBlockchain run succeeded on this operator node using alphanumeric UUP chain naming defaults.

Dev briefing: Checklist decision is GO, and self-host chain creation is now evidence-backed in the live operator flow.

Completed2026-02-22

Strict Signer Policy Enforced in Critical-Phase Runs

Critical-phase strict mode now requires launch-packet signer policy matches (requiredSigners + minSignatures) and fails closed when required signer conditions are not met.

Dev briefing: Signed launch-packet policy is now enforced by default in strict orchestration.

Completed2026-02-22

ANIMA Tier 0 Native SDK + Runtime Guard Baseline Pushed

ANIMA Tier 0 execution baseline and runtime guards are now paired with passing readiness evidence (anima-20260222-143834), including strict-private fixture mapping for Tier0 action IDs 2,3,17,4 in the local profile.

Dev briefing: ANIMA readiness bundle is now passing in the launch checklist local evidence profile.

Completed2026-02-22

Private Liquidity Proof Path Hardened (Local Evidence)

Marketless private-liquidity envelope handling was corrected in VeilVM action verification, then validated with passing adversarial backup+malformed evidence (20260222-024215) and post-fix smoke evidence (20260222-033228), now reflected in passing launch-gate state.

Dev briefing: Private liquidity verification edge case is fixed and archived as passing evidence in the active checklist snapshot.

Completed2026-02-22

Secondary Committee Rollout Closed (Local Profile)

Secondary validator committee activation is now live in the active VeilVM stack. Threshold-keying rollout audit passes for both validators with readiness green and runtime cryptographic markers present in logs (latest pointer: tkroll-20260222-190103).

Dev briefing: Second validator participates in threshold-keyed decrypt release with passing latest rollout evidence.

Completed2026-02-21

Live Dev Journal Pipeline Verified

Transparency updates can now be published straight to production with isolated single-commit deployment flow, so live community updates ship without bundling unrelated in-progress frontend work.

Dev briefing: Established clean single-file publish flow so community updates can ship live without frontend churn.

Completed2026-02-21

Live Runtime Activation Fixed for Threshold Keying

Local VEIL startup now writes per-chain VM config from secret env before AvalancheGo launch, fixing plugin env isolation. The secondary committee rollout gap that remained at this stage is now closed in the active local profile.

Dev briefing: Startup config materialization now reliably activates threshold mode in the VM runtime process.

Completed2026-02-18

Where We Started: Whitepaper Baseline Locked

We finalized the implementation baseline for VeilVM: encrypted mempool, shielded commitment/nullifier ledger, proof-gated batch execution, objective slashing, and deterministic replay.

Dev briefing: Locked protocol scope to whitepaper invariants and used it as the engineering source of truth.

Completed2026-02-19

Chain Bring-Up and Proof Pipeline

Local VEIL chain reached stable block production, proof-gated batch flow was wired, Vellum proof blob storage was enabled, and benchmark validation was hardened to require indexed execution success.

Dev briefing: Reached stable local chain operation with strict proof path checks and indexed execution validation.

Completed2026-02-20

Reliability and Interop Rails

Launch-gate runner reliability improved with targeted execution and fuel preflight hardening. Companion EVM intent relay paths were wired for both order and liquidity intents.

Dev briefing: Improved launch-gate reliability and wired EVM compatibility rails for intents and liquidity routing.

Completed2026-02-21

Private-Only Admission Enforced

Consensus now enforces a private-only action allowlist for core flow. Direct public AMM paths are rejected in strict mode; native liquidity ingress routes through private CommitOrder envelopes.

Dev briefing: Consensus now rejects public core-flow actions and only admits proof-verified private envelope routes.

Completed2026-02-21

Mempool Gossip Hardening Shipped

Tx gossip transport is now authenticated-encrypted (AES-256-GCM) with fail-closed key requirements. Local key management was moved to git-ignored secrets.

Dev briefing: Gossip confidentiality and authenticity are enforced, with fail-closed key requirements in local stack.

Completed2026-02-21

Threshold-Gated Decrypt Release Implemented

Encrypted tx gossip now uses threshold envelopes and a validator-share quorum gate before release into mempool submit path. Dockerized chain/vm tests pass for this path.

Dev briefing: Decrypt release now requires committee quorum shares before transaction admission into mempool.

Completed2026-02-21

Cryptographic Threshold-Keying Mode Implemented

Cryptographic threshold mode with per-envelope key-splitting and per-validator encrypted shares is implemented and now represented by passing rollout evidence in the active checklist profile.

Dev briefing: Threshold mechanism moved from implementation-only to evidence-backed passing state in current launch snapshot.

Completed2026-02-21

Historical Launch Gap Closure

The previously tracked launch gap (ceremony/rollout and launch-rehearsal closure) is now closed in the current launch snapshot, with checklist gates marked PASS or PASS (local).

Dev briefing: This item is retained for timeline continuity; it is no longer an active blocker in the current cycle.

Completed2026-02-21

Current Launch Posture (Updated)

Current launch authority state is GO FOR PRODUCTION with sign-off rows complete and all checklist gates shown as PASS or PASS (local) in the 2026-02-22 snapshot.

Dev briefing: Launch decision is now GO FOR PRODUCTION in canonical checklist state.

Completed2026-02-21

Threshold Key-Ceremony Tooling Added

VeilVM key tooling now includes threshold-node and threshold-ceremony modes to generate committee public-key bundles, ceremony manifests, and per-validator rollout env snippets for cryptographic mempool threshold keying.

Dev briefing: Added operator tooling for committee manifests, validator bundles, and rollout snippets for key ceremony.

Completed2026-02-21

Key Ceremony and Admin Rotation Closed

Key ceremony and admin rotation evidence are now archived and reflected as passing in the checklist (`ceremony-20260221-184909` and `rotation-20260222-045726`).

Dev briefing: Operational ceremony and ownership rotation are complete for the current launch snapshot.

Launch Gate Board

PASS (local) = validated local evidence profile. PASS = checklist gate closed.

Gate Totals

PASS3

PASS (local)2

In Progress1

Companion EVM bootstrap remains the only active gate. VEILvm validator connectivity and private admission controls are live and evidence-linked.

In Progress

Child Full Subnet Bootstrap Scope

In Progress: companion nodes are in active state-trie resync/bootstrap and currently return readiness 503 for the companion chain path until subnet bootstrapping fully completes. Operator-child validator peering on the VEILvm side remains live.

PASS

Child Validator Registration + Peering

PASS: child NodeID-A4yqq7yUCQV3CPsVaEGVATLNgHc2fd7vC is registered and connected to operator NodeID-BRWmyj4aQPgx1suA3Le9km1aF6sQnmVyw on the active validator set.

PASS (local)

Cryptographic Threshold Keying

PASS (local): threshold-gated encrypted gossip and fail-closed keying are active, with latest rollout audit pointer at tkroll-20260222-190103 and archived adversarial/smoke evidence.

PASS

Key Ceremony and Admin Key Rotation

PASS: key ceremony and ownership rotation are archived (`ceremony-20260221-184909`, `rotation-20260222-045726`) and reflected in checklist snapshot.

PASS

End-to-End Launch Rehearsal

PASS: full rehearsal packet is archived (`rehearsal-20260222-095753`) with signature verification complete.

PASS (local)

ANIMA Runtime Readiness

PASS (local): readiness bundle pointer (`anima-20260222-143834`) reports strict-private fixture coverage and overall pass in the current checklist.

Recent Engineering Changes

Hardening

Companion recovery moved to active bootstrap phase: both nodes restarted, trie sync in progress, and RPC ingress moved behind the new gateway/tunnel route with readiness still gated pending full subnet bootstrap.

2026-02-24

Milestone

Operator-child validator peering moved from bridge-ready to live connected status after staking tunnel correction, runtime version alignment, and child plugin install.

2026-02-24

Milestone

Live transparency/devlog surface deployment verified on veil.markets to ensure latest validator progression is production-visible.

2026-02-23

Hardening

Cleared child validator network topology blocker by enabling operator staking/RPC bridge endpoints and validating live child-side connectivity over cloudflared Access TCP.

2026-02-23

Policy

Launch decision advanced to GO FOR PRODUCTION after sign-off sheet completion (6/6 PASS) and readiness parser alignment for GO decision forms.

2026-02-22

Milestone

Self-host UUP chain launch executed successfully, then router runtime pinned to launched chain aQ8Ct8Hwwn71EeJw2eyPQJhu8mwHVoyGT8dDGgGu3svQAGSWs.

2026-02-22

Milestone

ANIMA Native v1 Tier 0 baseline is now paired with passing readiness evidence (`anima-20260222-143834`) and strict-private fixture mapping for Tier0 action IDs 2,3,17,4.

2026-02-22

Hardening

Private liquidity proof path hardened for marketless envelope flow, with archived PASS evidence for backup+malformed (20260222-024215) and post-fix smoke (20260222-033228), now reflected in passing checklist state.

2026-02-22

Milestone

Threshold-keying rollout now passes for both primary and secondary validators in local profile, with latest passing pointer `tkroll-20260222-190103`.

2026-02-22

Hardening

Local node startup now materializes per-chain VM config from env so plugin subprocesses activate cryptographic threshold-keying mode consistently.

2026-02-21

Hardening

Cryptographic threshold-keying mode added (per-envelope key split + per-validator encrypted shares + threshold combine before release).

2026-02-21

Hardening

Threshold key-ceremony tooling added to veilvm-keygen for validator key generation, committee manifesting, and rollout env packaging.

2026-02-21

Hardening

Threshold envelope gossip and validator-quorum-gated decrypt release path wired into VM mempool admission flow.

2026-02-21

Hardening

Encrypted mempool gossip transport enabled with fail-closed key requirement and local secret rotation.

2026-02-21

Policy

Consensus private-only admission gate enforced for core proof-verified action path.

2026-02-21

Milestone

Liquidity ingress moved to CommitOrder envelope route under strict privacy policy.

2026-02-21

Improvement

Targeted launch-gate evidence flow added to speed iteration and improve operational reliability.

2026-02-20

Feature

Companion EVM order and liquidity intent relay endpoints wired for interoperability rails.

2026-02-20

Milestone

Proof-gated batch pipeline and strict verifier runtime path stabilized in local environment.

2026-02-19

Milestone

Whitepaper-aligned protocol implementation baseline finalized and adopted as source of truth.

2026-02-18