Every Triangles wallet is now a Tor node. Staking rewards subsidize
Tor infrastructure.
Core changes:
- Embedded Tor 0.4.9.6 as git submodule
- ConnectNode rejects all non-.onion peers
- Tor failure is fatal - wallet requires Tor to operate
- All proxies forced through embedded Tor SOCKS
- Clearnet (IPv4/IPv6) disabled at startup
- HTTP seed fetch routes through Tor proxy (removed boost::asio dep)
- Merged PoW cleanup: -623 lines of dead mining code
- Stripped dead LEGACY/MIXED bootstrap modes from net_bootstrap
- RPC getnetworkinfo reports tor_native mode
Tooling:
- scripts/bump-version.sh syncs version across all 17+ files
- Version bumped to 5.6.0 across all packaging manifests
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Daemon: automatically downloads blockchain snapshot when no data exists
No -bootstrap flag needed. Use -nobootstrap to skip.
- Qt wallet: auto-bootstraps on first run (no question asked)
Existing users still get the optional re-download prompt.
- New users just install and run - blockchain downloads automatically
- Works on all platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, ARM64)
- Hardcoded DNS3 (74.208.167.19), DNS2 (194.233.88.206), and Contabo (100.98.123.59) as fixed seeds
- Nodes will automatically connect to these on first run
- No manual addnode configuration needed
- Full mesh network connectivity built into the code
The Tor v3 spec requires SHA3-256 (FIPS-202) for the .onion address
checksum computation, but ToStringIP() was using SHA-256 (double-hash).
This caused every reconstructed .onion address to have incorrect suffix
characters, making all outbound Tor connections fail with SOCKS5 'general
failure' - the entire network had 0 Tor peers despite working Tor instances.
Fix: Replace Hash() call with OpenSSL EVP_sha3_256() which is available
in OpenSSL 3.0+ and produces the correct FIPS-202 SHA3-256 checksum.
Tested: All 5 onion seed nodes now connect successfully.
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>
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>
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>
Remove time-based sync check that showed "out of sync" when blocks
were >6 hours old. For PoS chains with few stakers, blocks can be
hours apart - that's idle, not out of sync. Now uses block count
only. Also adds periodic UI refresh every 30s and switches cached
stake weight from volatile to std::atomic.
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>
Fixed missing braces in CNode constructor (net.h:327-329) that caused
PushVersion() to execute unconditionally for ALL connections instead of
only outbound connections.
This bug caused inbound peers (seed nodes) to:
1. Send version on connection (unintended)
2. Send version again when receiving peer's version (intended)
3. Trigger Misbehaving(1) on peer side for duplicate version
4. Get disconnected by peer (ProcessMessage fails → CloseSocketDisconnect)
Result: Seed nodes could only serve ~120 blocks before disconnect,
making sync nearly impossible.
Bump version to 5.2.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
hashSyncCheckpoint was initialized to block 2,186,940 hash, causing
CheckSync to reject ALL blocks below that height during initial block
download (they aren't in mapBlockIndex yet when checked). Changed to
genesis hash so IBD can proceed from block 0.
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>
- Bump version 5.1.4 → 5.1.5 across all source, CI, and packaging files
- Remove 157 build artifacts (build/*.o, release/*.dll, etc.) from git tracking
These were added before .gitignore existed and caused cross-platform CI failures
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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