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Damian Nadales

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  • Continued work on Node 10.7 integration (Treasury Funding Initiative 17: Maintenance and Support):
    • Integrated network packages up to ouroboros-network-0.22.6 (#1819, #1865).
    • Integrated latest ledger changes (#1762).
    • Integrated kes-agent-1.1 (#1819) (Treasury Funding Initiative 9: KES Agent).
  • Node improvements (Treasury Funding Initiative 17: Maintenance and Support):
    • Enhanced observability by exposing the reason for chain switches in the ChainSel tracer (#1826).
    • Added support for the new GetDRepDelegations ledger state query in NodeToClientV_23 (#1794).
    • Fixed an exception due to a mix-up of resources in the V2 LedgerDB (#1842).
    • Minor: code cleanup (#1854).
    • Added documentation for the Consensus-Ledger interaction (#1830).
  • Continued Leios prototype development (Treasury Funding Initiative 4: Ouroboros Leios Implementation, MS4.6):
    • Refactored to use EbHash instead of EbId for cleaner design (#1859).
    • Simplified to monomorphic types for more rapid iteration (#1846).
    • Implemented in-memory LeiosDb for ThreadNet tests (#1837).

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Damian Nadales

High level summary​

  • Continued work on Node 10.7 integration and release (Treasury Funding Initiative 17: Maintenance and Support).
  • Added defensive programming logic to the mempool (#1831), backported it via a CHaP release for cardano-node 10.6.2 (#1216), and drafted corresponding EKG counters for the 10.6.2 release engineer to use (#6420) (Treasury Funding Initiative 17: Maintenance and Support).
  • Prototyped Leios EB (Endorsement Block) production, advancing the implementation of the Leios protocol (#690). Successfully forged EBs and integrated them with the proto-devnet, complete with Grafana dashboards (Treasury Funding Initiative 4: Ouroboros Leios Implementation, MS4.6).
  • Working on optimizations for the centralized TxSubmission logic (#1444) (Treasury Funding Initiative 17: Maintenance and Support).
  • Released kes-agent and kes-agent-crypto version 1.0 (Treasury Funding Initiative 9: KES Agent, MS9.7).

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Damian Nadales

High level summary​

  • Completed the LSM work in Consensus. Remaining LSM work is just integration in API, CLI, and Node which will be done as part of Node 10.7. In particular we:
    • Made forkers more observable (#1773).
    • Updated the code to reject legacy snapshots (#1774).
    • Updated to latest LSM-trees (#1776), including dependency updates to allow older filepath (#804) and older unix (#805).
  • Fixed a deadlock in the V1LMDB mempool implementation (#1787, #1798).
  • Resolved a memory leak in benchmarks for the 10.6.1 release (#1802).
  • Prepared a 10.6.1 node with LSM-trees for preliminary deployment on a relay to gather performance measurements.
  • Successfully compiled an untested prototype of a node using different tables per block, preparatory work for LedgerHD planned for Node 10.8.
  • Modified cardano-testnet to support running with kes-agent.
  • Made progress on migrating Leios demos to ouroboros-leios, including traffic control support for network delay and bandwidth configuration in Leios experiments (#651). The remaining work involves making sure CI passes and incorporating review feedback.
  • Continued work on Node 10.7 integration.

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Damian Nadales

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  • Participated in the November 2025 incident response, providing analysis on potential intervention scenarios and tracking chain progression metrics.
  • Merged documentation of the Leios Protocol Burst attack threat model (ouroboros-leios#624), strengthening the protocol's security foundation ahead of load testing and mitigation strategy development.
  • Continued preparation for the Leios November demo, with significant progress on observability infrastructure using Grafana and Prometheus (#1766), and demo packaging to streamline deployment (#1759). Both tasks are expected to be completed by end of week.

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Damian Nadales

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  • Discovered the "bufferbloat" pathology of the October 2025 Leios demo. Opened #1756 to troubleshoot it.
  • Introduced additional changes needed for LSM-tree integration in cardano-node (#1715).
  • Fixed race conditions and double read-lock acquisitions in the LedgerDb, and improved resource management in the LedgerDb (#1737, #1741).
  • Improved memory management by preventing the retention of the Genesis ledger state, which is particularly relevant during benchmarking and testing (#1731).
  • Improved resource management in the mempool and LedgerDb (#1714).