Dev Release 223

Purpose:
This development release highlights the ongoing engineering efforts across the blockchain core, mining infrastructure, x1 and x10 integration, and DevOps operations. The primary objective for this sprint is to stabilize mining efficiency, enhance device usability, and fortify infrastructure security as part of the Awakening Testnet roadmap.

The team’s current focus is twofold:

Optimizing the mining pool setup for ASIC miners to ensure fairness, stability, and high performance.

Refining the X1 and X10 device experiences through testing, bug resolution, and UI consistency improvements.

Parallelly, our DevOps division is addressing vulnerabilities found during the recent code audit and aligning infrastructure improvements with upcoming scalability goals.

• Mining pool setup for ASIC miners is nearing completion with active refinement of difficulty parameters to minimize block rejection.
• X1 and X10 device builds undergoing comprehensive QA with focus on data consistency, registration flow, and UI responsiveness.
• DevOps team executing a full-scale remediation plan to eliminate vulnerabilities and strengthen deployment pipelines.
• Strategic discussions initiated around next wave of feature integration, focusing on user engagement, monitoring, and automation.

Each iteration in this release brings the network closer to production-grade stability and operational readiness.

Mining Optimization: Ensures fair and efficient mining participation.

Device Refinement: Guarantees that users interacting via X1 and X10 devices experience accurate, consistent, and intuitive data representation.

Infrastructure Hardening: Reinforces the network’s resilience against potential exploits and improves deployment reliability for future upgrades.

Together, these enhancements contribute directly to BlockDAG’s mission of delivering a decentralized, high-performance, and user-driven blockchain ecosystem.

• The blockchain engineering team is currently engaged in setting up and tuning the mining pool for ASIC miners, marking an important step in expanding network compatibility and mining diversity.
• Initial mining tests confirm network stability and transaction processing efficiency, but miner-side logs reveal that a large percentage of submitted blocks are being rejected due to high difficulty calibration.
• The team has launched an intensive difficulty optimization cycle, experimenting with real-time feedback from active mining nodes.
• The goal is to determine an optimal difficulty threshold that minimizes block rejection while maintaining secure consensus and equitable reward distribution.
• This involves tuning the target block time, analyzing rejection patterns under different hash rates, and assessing miner synchronization latency.
• Continuous monitoring scripts are being added to gather live metrics on block acceptance ratios and overall hash rate uniformity.
• Once the optimal difficulty model is validated, it will be rolled out across all mining endpoints for broader stability testing and performance benchmarking.

The device integration team continues its QA and validation phase . Both X1 and X10 devices serve as critical interfaces between users and the blockchain ecosystem, ensuring transparent access to mining statistics, wallet data, and transactional records.

• X10 Devices
  • Testing focuses on build stability, performance tuning, and minor bug resolution.
  • The team has been monitoring transaction synchronization times and refining UI transitions for smoother interactions.
  • Early testing feedback suggests a stable backend connection with negligible downtime, indicating readiness for broader testing once minor UI issues are addressed.
• X1 Devices

Several  bugs have been identified and are being actively resolved:

• Total BDAG Value Display Issue:
• The dashboard currently fails to display the aggregated BDAG balance due to a data binding issue between the wallet service and frontend parser.
• A patch is under development to correct data aggregation and enable dynamic updates across views.
• Inconsistent Amount Display Formatting:
• Monetary values show discrepancies in precision and symbol placement across screens (e.g., transaction history vs. balance overview).
• The fix involves standardizing decimal precision, currency formatting, and locale-based display rules.
• Default Country Code Configuration:
• The registration module automatically assigns India as the default country code, bypassing regional detection.
• The fix will involve adding automatic geolocation detection and allowing users to manually override the value if needed.

Once the new build passes internal regression testing, it will be deployed for controlled community testing on the Awakening network.

The DevOps and Infrastructure team has been performing extensive work to reinforce the foundation of our network operations.

Following a comprehensive internal security audit, several vulnerabilities were identified across infrastructure layers, including configuration management, access control, and dependency integrity.

The team has initiated a multi-phase remediation plan, which includes:

• Upgrading node operating environments and dependencies.
• Strengthening CI/CD pipelines to enforce build integrity and version control compliance.
• Implementing stricter IAM policies for resource and credential management.
• Automating security compliance checks in the deployment workflow.
• Infrastructure monitoring scripts are also being updated to enable real-time anomaly detection and auto-remediation protocols in the next release cycle.
  In parallel, internal strategy discussions are underway to define the next set of features and scalability improvements, including enhanced telemetry, distributed deployment templates, and container-based orchestration for multi-region setups.

Resolved UI rendering lag on X10 dashboard.

Improved logging mechanisms in mining pool scripts for better debugging.

Minor API synchronization fixes in backend wallet services.

• ASIC miners rejecting blocks due to unresolved difficulty mismatch.
• BDAG total value display issue on X1 dashboard.
• Inconsistent formatting and default region logic in X1 registration flow.
• Pending optimization of CI/CD scan results post vulnerability audit.

We highly value the continued feedback from our community, partners, and testnet participants.
If you encounter issues, observe anomalies, or wish to suggest enhancements, please contact us at support@blockdag.network.

Your participation and feedback are central to the progress and refinement of the BlockDAG Network. Together, we’re building the foundation for a more secure, scalable, and decentralized future.

This development cycle has made significant strides in optimizing mining operations, improving X-series device functionality, and strengthening infrastructure security. While some challenges—such as block rejection on ASIC miners and device display inconsistencies—remain under active resolution, the team’s efforts are steadily advancing network stability, usability, and resilience.

With these improvements, BlockDAG is better positioned to support a more efficient, secure, and user-friendly ecosystem, laying a strong foundation for upcoming feature integrations and wider testnet adoption. The continued collaboration between blockchain, device, and DevOps teams ensures that each release brings measurable progress toward a fully robust decentralized network.