Dev Release-226

Purpose:
This release provides an in-depth update on recent development progress across the BlockDAG Explorer platform and the X30 & X100 Miner systems. It covers major advancements in API documentation, transaction indexing, and mining protocol enhancements aimed at strengthening transparency, system reliability, and developer accessibility.

• Explorer: Full Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and development for backend API testing, improving accessibility for developers, QA teams, and integration partners.
• Explorer Indexing: Investigation and debugging initiated for P2P transactions not appearing in the Explorer despite successful broadcast and confirmation.
• X30 & X100 Miners: Implementation of Extranonce1 allocation per connection, ensuring unique hashing per miner and preventing duplicate work submissions across miners.

This release advances the reliability and scalability of both the mining and explorer ecosystems. With improved API visibility, structured documentation, and indexing stability, the Explorer becomes more developer-friendly and integration-ready. On the mining side, unique hashing guarantees ensure fair and efficient workload distribution. Collectively, these updates push BlockDAG toward a stronger, transparent, and production-grade network environment.

Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation Setup:
The development team has successfully completed the setup of Swagger/OpenAPI documentation for all backend endpoints of the BlockDAG Explorer. This setup provides an interactive reference for developers to explore, test, and integrate APIs seamlessly. It also enhances cross-team collaboration, ensuring a uniform understanding of request-response structures and authentication flows.
 

The documentation defines all major routes across:

• Authentication
• User Management
• Core Business Features
• Admin Operations
• Reporting

Each API includes detailed descriptions, request/response models, authentication variables, and response validation parameters.

Explorer Indexing Issue

• Issue Summary:
  A P2P transaction (Hash: 0xd8dbce929296b02146994df706ddf84f91fbc24b64e28fc0c4381cae86166695) has been successfully executed and confirmed on-chain but is currently missing in the Explorer. Searching for the transaction returns a “Transaction Not Found” error.
   
• Root Cause Investigation:
  Preliminary analysis indicates a potential delay or failure in the indexing service, which processes and updates new P2P transaction data into the Explorer’s database. The issue could stem from:
  • Indexer not capturing certain transaction types (P2P-specific).
  • Lag in the queue-processing layer.
  • Potential inconsistency between node RPC data and the Explorer’s cache layer.
     
• Planned Actions:
  • Enable extended logging for transaction ingestion and indexing events.
  • Trace the missing hash through the indexer pipeline to identify dropped or unprocessed jobs.
     

Patch and redeploy the indexing service once validation is complete.

These actions aim to restore full visibility for all transaction types and prevent similar display inconsistencies going forward.

Extranonce1 Allocation Implementation:
To resolve identical hash outputs across miners, the mining protocol has been upgraded with Extranonce1 allocation per connection. This ensures each miner’s job is uniquely identified, preventing hash duplication across devices processing the same block template.
 

Implementation Details:

• The pool now generates and assigns a unique Extranonce1 value to every miner connection.
• This value is appended to the coinbase transaction, ensuring that each miner computes a distinct hash.
• Verified through multiple test runs that no two miners generate identical hashes, confirming the integrity of the fix.

Impact:
This enhancement ensures network fairness and strengthens consensus accuracy by preventing duplicate submissions, leading to improved efficiency in block discovery and job assignment distribution.
 

Next Focus Areas:

• Conduct extended stability tests under multiple simultaneous connections.
• Monitor latency and response times for pool-miner interactions.
• Benchmark miner performance metrics post-implementation to validate overall gain in hash diversity.

• P2P transaction indexing verification and resolution are pending.
• Continuous monitoring of Extranonce1 performance impact on X30 & X100 miners.

• Complete root-cause fix and redeployment for Explorer’s transaction indexing.
• Conduct large-scale miner stress testing with unique Extranonce1 values.

This release represents a significant step toward a more transparent, developer-ready, and robust BlockDAG ecosystem. From improved API accessibility to secured miner uniqueness and active indexing stabilization, each milestone strengthens the core architecture. The teams continue to refine, test, and document every component to ensure a smooth path toward scalable, production-grade deployment.