Changelog

Governance v2

• The governance contract (ase1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqr624k8e) is upgraded to v2 at block 330,000 (around 1 October 2026, 18:00 UTC). Storage is kept, so earlier proposals and votes are still there.
• Vote weight is paid back once that vote's voting ends: withdraw() pays every finished vote at once, withdrawVote and withdrawAmendmentVote pay one. v1 never sent ASE back (the v1 contract never held any ASE, so none was lost).
• The 100 ASE proposal bond is returned at execute when quorum is met, and forfeited with no quorum. claimBond settles bonds of proposals concluded before v2.
• Quorum (1,000 ASE) no longer counts the proposer's own vote. support must be true or false. Methods that take no ASE revert if ASE is sent.
• At most 16 amendments per proposal; amendment voting ends no later than the parent's and closes with it.
• Library proposals are disabled, and the node stops injecting libraries into contracts from the same block.
• Governance is still testnet only and signalling only. Voting is lock-to-vote, not stake-weighted.

Aura plus GRANDPA consensus engine

• Consensus migrated from the earlier Tendermint-style BFT to a two-layer engine: Aura produces blocks on ~2-second slots, GRANDPA finalizes them once two thirds of staked weight agree. Finality trails the head by a few blocks.
• A slow or offline validator now costs at most a skipped slot, not a stalled chain.
• Validator set scales to hundreds; the minimum self-bond is 500 ASE.
• Testnet reset to chain id 1418 with a clean genesis.
• Every block proposal and finality vote is signed with ML-DSA-65.

Governance-controlled VM libraries

• On-chain governance contract with proposals, amendments, and a 100-block execution delay. Signalling only: results are recorded, nothing runs automatically.
• Governance-approved VM library injection: library source lives on-chain and is hardened into every contract's Compartment. Disabled again from block 330,000 (see 0.6.79).
• First approved library on the testnet of the time: math (PI, E, sqrt, pow, trig). That testnet has since been reset and no library is approved today.
• Block explorer rebranded to editorial palette, with full block/tx/address/contract detail pages, search, and validator list.
• @asentum/sdk v0.1 published - AsentumClient, AsentumWallet, AsentumContract.
• 278/278 tests green.

Multi-validator BFT on real networks

• Five validators across three continents (Germany, US East, US West, local Mac) producing 2-second blocks.
• Graceful quorum transition: new validators enter a 10-block pending window before being counted for consensus.
• Cached-proposal fix for retry-safe block building (no more self-tombstoning on quorum timeouts).
• Sync loop runs alongside producer mode - restarted validators catch up without manual intervention.

Chrome extension wallet

• Native Manifest V3 Chrome extension with Dilithium3 signing.
• Password-encrypted vault: scrypt N=131072 + AES-GCM-256.
• Per-origin permissions for window.asentum provider.
• Per-transaction approval popups with typed context (transfer, deploy, call).
• Multiple accounts with add / rename / switch / delete.
• Connected sites view with revoke.

The everybody chain

• Single-binary CLI (Node SEA) shipping macOS arm64 + x64 and Windows x64.
• One-liner installers for macOS/Linux (curl | sh) and Windows (iwr | iex).
• Browser contract IDE (now the Asentum IDE at ide.asentum.com) live with token, guestbook, tip-jar templates.
• Post-deploy method introspection and auto-generated forms for view/send methods.

Testnet goes public

• Public testnet host live behind Caddy with automatic Let's Encrypt TLS.
• JSON-RPC endpoint accepts external traffic. Faucet online.
• Explorer UI served at the same host with content-negotiated routes.

Internal devnet and pre-public work

• Core chain: HTTP peer fan-out, Tendermint-style BFT, SMT state, SES contract VM, JSON-RPC.
• Dilithium3 signatures across consensus and transactions.
• Staking and slashing system contracts.
• Ethereum-ecosystem JSON-RPC compatibility (eth_getBalance, eth_getLogs, etc.).
• MetaMask Snap spike (later deprecated in favor of the native extension).
• 4-validator BFT test passing kill-one scenarios locally.