CKB Dev Log 2025-03-19

[chenyukang]

Updates

Release

• ckb-debugger: Added macOS (x64) and linux (arm64) releases for ckb-debugger 0.200.0

Features & Resources

• New RFC for standardizing hardfork naming conventions — Introduced another RFC to standardize the naming convention for hardforks, clarifying timeline policies and processes. RFC(0053): CKB Hardfork rfcs#442
• New blog post — Transforming IPC in CKB On-Chain Script
• New tutorial for ckb-js-vm — A complete guide for writing on-chain Scripts in TypeScript
• Published create-ckb-js-vm-app — a CLI tool for quickly bootstrapping CKB Scripts powered by ckb-js-vm.
• Rust 2024 edition upgrade for CKB-related packages

Improvements

• Customizable syscall generator — Enables ckb-script to be used in more environments. feat: Syscall generator shall be customizable #4847
• Enhanced CKB standalone debugger: Add feature for using AsmMachine in debugger ckb-standalone-debugger#162
• Erlay experiment — Created a ckb-message-transport-simulator to test Erlay algorithm, confirming can save ~33% of bandwidth.
• Cargo auto-inheritance — Centralized dependencies with cargo-autoinherit to improve CKB workspace maintainability: Centralize dependencies with cargo autoinherit to improve CKB workspace maintainability #4832
• User configuration check added: chore: when the user configuration is wrong, exit and output log #4833

In sub-projects:

ckb-std

• Added multisig test to SPHINCS+-based Quantum lock
• Add new macros to allow assertions with custom exit code ckb-std#131

ckb-script-templates

• Use a generic library feature to setup contract ckb-script-templates#31

tentacle

• fix: fix stream only write will stuck forever tentacle#398

ckb node probe

• Allow online node information to be updated in a timely manner feat: remove dial list filter ckb-discovery#6

In Pipeline

• Network tests on Erlay — Evaluating its impact before deciding on further development.
• CKB bootstrapper Improvements — Ensuring reproducible builds for CKB source archives and binary releases: https://github.com/xxuejie/ckb-bootstrapper/tree/main/projects/ckb
• Multisig Proposal – Developing a common multisig solution compatible with any signature verification algorithm.
• Contract Fuzz Testing – More efforts on fuzz testing for smart contracts.
• NAT Traversal for CKB – Ongoing work on NAT penetration solutions.