Replace all hardcoded seed addresses (onion, clearnet, DNS) with a
dynamic HTTP-based seed list fetched from seeds.cryptographic-triangles.org
on startup. New getseedlist RPC exposes known .onion peers from the
address manager for a collector script to publish.
Any wallet that comes online with an onion address is automatically
discovered by peers via P2P addr exchange and appears in the seed list
within minutes. No binary rebuilds needed when addresses change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move wallet rescan to a background thread after IBD completes instead
of blocking on the main thread. Address index is now built during IBD
rather than skipped and rebuilt later. Wallet scan releases cs_wallet
lock while reading blocks from disk to improve concurrency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes multiple concurrency bugs exposed during shutdown when Tor proxy
connections are failing:
- Reorder shutdown: stop network threads before destroying Tor V3 services
- Make RPC listener responsive to fShutdown (poll_one+sleep vs blocking run_one)
- Wrap StopRequests() in try/catch and drain io_service on exit
- Fix leaked CNode AddRef in ThreadSocketHandler2 and ThreadMessageHandler2
(return→break so Release loop executes)
- Guard vNodes.size() read with cs_vNodes lock (data race)
- Guard Qt UI signal callbacks with fShutdown check (use-after-free)
- Add cs_vNodes lock in CNetCleanup global destructor
- Force-disconnect remaining nodes in StopNode() after threads stop
- Make Tor maintenance thread sleep in 500ms intervals for prompt shutdown
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex changes: delegate hidden service management to the actual Tor
backend instead of generating keys the wallet never served. The new
AttachToBackendService() reads the hostname Tor creates, and the
torrc/process plumbing properly gates HiddenService directives behind
the -torhiddenservice flag.
Additional fixes:
- Back up hs_ed25519_secret_key (96 bytes) to wallet.dat so the onion
identity survives deletion of tor_data/
- Restore the key before Tor starts so the same .onion address is
regenerated automatically
- Add ThreadTorMaintenance: checks Tor health every 30s, auto-restarts
with exponential backoff on crash, re-attaches the hidden service
and re-registers the onion address with AddLocal()
- Seeder maintenance: every 30 min re-announces to peers and refreshes
known seeder lists (when -torseeder is enabled)
- Clean up ScheduleSeederReannouncement() stub (real work now in thread)
- Respect -torsocks port in onion proxy registration
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Instrument AppInit2 with StartupPerfLog timing for each startup phase
(block index, wallet load, rescan, tor, peers, etc). Show queued
transaction count in the progress bar during wallet history sync.
Emit transactionSyncProgressChanged for real-time pending counts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sync fixes:
- Extend stall detection beyond IBD to catch post-IBD sync gaps
- Walk-forward inv continuation to avoid CBlockLocator exponential gap loop
- Track walk-forward progress for stall recovery without restarting from scratch
GUI fixes:
- Load transactions synchronously in constructor (deferred QTimer never fired)
- Use beginResetModel/endResetModel instead of deprecated reset()
- Schedule full refresh on TRY_LOCK failure to avoid dropped CT_NEW notifications
- Only update cachedNumBlocks after successful balance check (prevents permanent loss)
- Add GetAllBalances() single-pass balance retrieval with TRY_LOCK
Bootstrap:
- Add trusted snapshot manifest verification for bootstrap archives
- Add IsKnownCheckpoint() to validate manifest against compiled-in checkpoints
- Skip txleveldb rebuild when verified manifest is present
Bump version to 5.3.7 across all packaging manifests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move GetStakeWeight() off the UI thread by caching in the staking
miner thread. Replace blocking LOCK(cs_vNodes) with TRY_LOCK in
clientmodel and staking icon updates. Fix out-of-sync label getting
stuck when disconnected. Add daemon bootstrap and faster IBD pipeline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Daemon: add -bootstrap flag to download chain files from server on startup
- Qt: bootstrap prompt shows every launch with "Don't show this again" checkbox
- IBD: reduce pipeline refill interval from 1000 to 100 blocks for faster sync
- Add bootstrap.o to daemon makefiles (mingw + unix)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major sync performance overhaul:
- Assumevalid: skip FetchInputs/ConnectInputs for blocks below
checkpoint (2,186,940). Only write txindex entries. Eliminates
millions of LevelDB reads during initial sync.
- Skip SyncWithWallets during IBD with automatic post-IBD wallet
rescan from genesis and SecureMsg chain scan.
- Skip wallet best-chain locator update during IBD so restarts
trigger proper rescan.
- Remove send/receive buffer limits (were 1MB/5MB, now unlimited).
The 1MB send buffer was the root cause of ~180 block stalls -
ProcessMessages stops reading when nSendSize >= SendBufferSize().
- Reduce IBD pipeline batch from 500 to 100 blocks for faster
re-requesting with near-instant block processing.
- Seed getblocks limit raised to 20000 during IBD (was 500).
- Faster message handler polling during IBD (10ms vs 100ms).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds CTorProcess which finds and launches an external Tor binary as a
subprocess, providing a SOCKS5 proxy on port 19099 and a v3 hidden
service on port 24112. The wallet auto-detects Tor from common install
locations or the app directory. Falls back gracefully to clearnet-only
if Tor is not found. Also fixes Tor-only network restriction that
blocked IPv4/IPv6, and bumps version to 5.1.7.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Critical fix: revert initial sync from getheaders back to getblocks.
The headers-first change (05b1fd1) broke chain continuation — after
downloading the first 2000 blocks, fresh nodes would stall because
the getheaders path has no orphan-based continuation mechanism.
The getblocks/inv/orphan cycle is required for full chain sync.
Also adds getblocks fallback to the headers handler so if headers
are used via other paths, sync still continues.
Other changes:
- Extract REST API into separate rest.cpp/rest.h
- Add REST rate limiting and CORS support
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The wallet was freezing on "Verifying database integrity" because the
old Tor v2 startup code blocked on a mutex (wait_initialized) and
required an onion/hostname file that no longer existed after v2 removal.
Replace the blocking v2 startup with internal V3 onion identity:
- Every wallet now auto-generates Ed25519 keys and a V3 .onion address
- Keys are stored in wallet.dat (encrypted if wallet is encrypted)
- Onion identity is created after wallet loads (Step 8.5) so keys
persist across restarts
- No external Tor process required for identity generation
- Writes onion/hostname and tor_data/ config for optional external Tor
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Startup optimization (fixes multi-minute hang on 2M+ block chain):
- Skip computing SHA-256 stake modifier checksum for blocks below last
checkpoint (was doing 2M+ unnecessary hashes on every startup)
- Reduce default -checkblocks from 2500 to 50 (disk read savings)
- Add progress percentage reporting during block index load
Headers-first sync (faster initial sync):
- Switch initial sync from getblocks to getheaders protocol
- Add PushGetHeaders and headers message handler in net/main
- Downloads 80-byte headers first, then requests blocks — allows
the node to learn chain structure before downloading full blocks
Address-index accelerated wallet rescan:
- New ScanForWalletTransactionsFromIndex() uses address index to find
only transactions touching wallet keys (skips scanning every block)
- Follows spend chains to find related transactions
- Falls back to full scan if index unavailable
- Track index sync state with addressIndexBestChain/StartHeight in LevelDB
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Defer SecureMsgStart and ReacceptWalletTransactions to background thread
so GUI appears faster during startup
- Add shutdown checks in wallet scan/reaccept to prevent hanging on exit
- Smart wallet rescan: start from wallet birthday instead of genesis block
- Raise default dbcache from 25 to 128 MB for better performance
- Replace deprecated QDesktopServices with QStandardPaths (Qt5 compat)
- Enforce Qt5+ requirement in build system, remove -fpermissive flag
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Revived frozen chain (Dec 2022) with two live seed nodes
- Added Tor v3 onion hidden service support (Ed25519)
- Wired seeder message handlers (seeder/getseederlist/seederlist)
- Hardcoded onion seeds and clearnet IP seeds for DNS2/DNS3
- Fixed bind address (0.0.0.0) so nodes accept external connections
- Added boost_chrono to makefile.unix for modern Boost
- Fixed LoadExternalBlockFile block-skip bug for faster imports
- Import-only optimizations for chain replay (checkpoint-gated)
- Added sort_blocks.c tool for blockchain data recovery
- Comprehensive README with build/run/messaging/Tor instructions
- Chain revival status document for project coordination
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Port codebase to build with OpenSSL 3.x and Boost 1.90+:
- Rewrite bignum.h to use BIGNUM* pointer instead of inheriting from opaque BIGNUM
- Fix ECDSA_SIG, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, HMAC_CTX opaque type access across key.cpp, crypter.cpp, smessage.cpp
- Modernize Boost.Asio API (io_context, resolver, executor) in trianglesrpc.cpp
- Remove embedded Tor v2 client (incompatible with OpenSSL 3.x), keep Tor v3 SOCKS5 approach
- Update header logo to Cryptographic Triangles branding (300x63)
- Replace Bittrex exchange link with Pinball (313.cash) across all locales
- Fix MSYS2/MinGW64 build: linker flags, Boost library names, miniupnpc static linking
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Version 4.2.1.0
- wallet makeover
- staking behaviour adjustments
- non mandatory update-
- no need for updating daemons (only recomended if used for staking)
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