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- April 26, 2026
Week 17 Dev Digest: CertiK Audit Closure, Gas Scaling Fixes, DevShards Rewards
Week 17 closed 23 GitHub issues and merged 11 pull requests across the Gonka stack, with the bulk of the work in CertiK audit closure, BLS gas-scaling patches, and DevShards reward distribution at epoch end.
- April 21, 2026
BLS DKG Gas Scaling: 56x Write Cost Fixed Before v0.2.12
Two PRs replaced inline BLS slice writes with per-entry sub-keys after the 8th DKG dealer hit a 10.4M gas wall on Gonka testnet, a 56x cost difference from the first dealer.
- April 17, 2026
Week 16 Dev Digest: Multi-Model Foundation, Transaction Fees, 27 Issues Closed
The biggest week of 2026 so far. Multi-model support lands as a P0 milestone, transaction fees arrive for spam prevention, DevShards consensus drops float math, and CertiK bridge fixes ship.
- April 13, 2026
PoC v2 on vLLM 0.15.1: The Port Is Underway, Rough Edges and All
The port of Gonka's PoC v2 and Enforced Sampling from vLLM 0.9.1's V0 engine to 0.15.1's V1 engine is now in progress — the main pieces work in cross-validation, three corner cases are still open, and A100 nodes are flagged as a known weak spot.
- April 10, 2026
Week 15 Dev Digest: CertiK Bridge Audit Finalized, PoC Priority Gating, Maintenance Exemptions
Week 15 brought the CertiK Ethereum Bridge audit to completion, per-request logprobs control in vLLM, PoC priority gating to prevent GPU contention, and a maintenance exemption mechanism in the slashing module. 14 issues closed across 3 repositories.
- April 3, 2026
Week 14 Dev Digest: DevShards Economics, Bridge Security Hardening, 21 Issues Closed
A security-heavy week: CertiK bridge audit fixes deployed, DevShards fee and reward model finalized, escrow fund-loss bug eliminated, and developer access simplified across 21 closed issues.
- March 28, 2026
Week 13 Dev Digest: v0.2.12 Testnet, Continuous PoC Foundation, 33 Issues Closed
The heaviest sprint this month: v0.2.12 merged to Testnet, Continuous PoC infrastructure landed, PoC v1 retired, and 33 issues closed across consensus, inference, and bridge security.
- March 25, 2026
Continuous PoC Foundation: Proving Compute Without Stopping Inference
PR #845 adds the foundational infrastructure for continuous Proof of Computation, enabling GPU nodes to prove spare capacity in parallel with inference work instead of pausing for discrete epoch windows.
- March 25, 2026
Fast Circuit Breaker Cuts Degraded Node Traffic Within Minutes
A new 3-state circuit breaker with exponential backoff now removes underperforming GPU nodes from inference routing in under 5 minutes, replacing the previous 10-50+ inference wait for SPRT detection.
- March 20, 2026
Week 12 Dev Digest: v0.2.11 Network Upgrade, Collateral Overhaul, and Reproducible Sampling
A packed week for the Gonka protocol: 29 issues closed across collateral economics, reproducible sampling protection, subnet proxy support, and inference pipeline hardening.
- March 17, 2026
Gonka v0.2.11 Upgrade: Inference Shards, Performance Fixes, and 15+ Changes in PR #813
PR #813 proposes Gonka v0.2.11 with Inference Shards — an off-chain subnet architecture that reduces on-chain transactions from one per inference to two per session — plus CertiK audit fixes, performance optimizations, IBC trading support, and 80,250 GNK in bug bounties.
- March 15, 2026
Semantic Cache L2: How Gonka Cuts GPU Costs Without Extra Hardware
The Gonka team shipped a two-level semantic cache with a four-stage quality gate pipeline. It runs entirely on CPU, uses 23 MB of RAM, and in testing matched or exceeded live GPU inference quality.
- March 13, 2026
Dev Digest W11: IBC Integration, CertiK Security Sweep, Inference Overhaul
33 issues closed in one week: IBC support goes live, eight CertiK-driven security fixes ship, and the inference pipeline gets a full performance overhaul.
- March 12, 2026
Security Hardening: Eight Fixes from CertiK Audit and Internal Review
Eight security fixes ship in one week: BLS cryptography corrections, CometBFT vulnerability patch, ML pipeline RCE elimination, and TLS hardening.
- March 11, 2026
Validation and Key Verification Get Major Performance Overhaul
Two PRs eliminate redundant cryptographic operations and add transient caching to MsgValidation, significantly increasing inference throughput per block.
- March 8, 2026
What's Coming in Gonka v0.2.11
A preview of the upcoming v0.2.11 release: faster inference, unified permissions, continuous PoC, and security fixes from the CertiK audit.
- March 6, 2026
Dev Digest: Continuous PoC, Inference Speedups, and Unified Permissions
17 PRs merged this week bring Continuous PoC, major inference performance gains, unified permissions, and critical consensus fixes to the Gonka network.
- February 28, 2026
Trustless Decentralized Training: Gonka Closes P1 Research on Adversarial AI Networks
Gonka closes its longest-running P1 issue with a research framework mapping the path from distributed to truly trustless decentralized AI training.
- February 27, 2026
Dev Digest W10: Token Auth, Inference Speed, PoC Hardening
14 PRs merged: token-based authentication, 3 inference optimizations, PoC proof improvements, and 7 stability fixes preparing for v0.2.11.
- February 23, 2026
Dev Digest: Feb 17-23, 2026 — Inference Sprint and PoC Proof Hardening
11 issues closed: inference latency optimizations, PoC proof improvements with vote verification, critical vesting bug fix, and infrastructure maintenance.