Jun 4, 2025

I've been working on network protocols, which is super straightforward compared to optimizing the node. I've added support for the handing the sendaddrv2 message in the version handshake, by adding a derived protocol_version_70016 and which will be functional once I add derived protocol_address_in_70016 and protocol_address_out_70016. I've also implemented protocol_header_out_70012. Next is protocol_block_out, which is very similar to header_out (and I completed the query for it along with the header_out, since they are basically the same). Then just need to add header announcements (sendheaders message gets incorporated in protocol_header_out_70012) and block announcements in protocol_block_out (which is only for blocks-first support). At that point it's a fully functional blocks-only node, with blocks first and headers first protocol support. We'll want to add the compact filters support (bip157 at protocol level 70015) because we have the store/query available. But there's no reason to implement the compact blocks, mempool, or tx relay protocols until we have a tx pool. Everything else is complete up to bip155 (sendarrdv2, @ network level 70016) and bip340/341/342 (taproot, consensus). I expect all of the above to be complete in a couple of weeks.