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grenadeandClaude Opus 5.5 b05b208dfa feat(config): follow QTC on NEAR Intents through our own node
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Enables [chains.intents] for quantus: asset nep141:qtc.omft.near, read from
https://near.internal (neard on frankie, tracking intents.near's shard), with
view calls left on FastNEAR. start_height is the oldest block our node holds,
218,346,736 — a sound floor because qtc.omft.near held no supply at
218,369,028, so nothing can have traded before it, and it keeps the whole
backfill on our node rather than on a throttled archive.

The gate test that kept this off becomes a parse test that expects it on.

Closes #27

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015pkwBsR54NRmZyU4QVhvfj
2026-10-03 18:35:32 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5.5 cf227bf421 fix(data): read tx outcomes at INCLUDED_FINAL, not EXECUTED
Our NEAR node tracks only intents.near's shard. Against a swap that withdrew
through omni.bridge.near, EXECUTED and EXECUTED_OPTIMISTIC both waited for the
receipts on shards the node never sees and timed out with a 408 after ten
seconds — the scan would have retried that block forever, stalling on exactly
the trades it exists to read. INCLUDED_FINAL answered in 10 ms with all five
token_diff events and the intents_executed event, matching FastNEAR's full
view, because intents.near's first receipt executes in the inclusion block.

Verified end to end against https://near.internal with wNEAR configured: the
scan followed the tip with no errors, recorded trades and pushed one live.

Refs #27

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015pkwBsR54NRmZyU4QVhvfj
2026-10-03 18:35:32 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5.5 8128201ad9 feat(api): index swaps settled by NEAR Intents, off by default
The price of a token on NEAR Intents is the ratio inside a trade that
`intents.near` actually executed; there is no pool, oracle or stored price,
and a 1Click quote is an offer. This reads `execute_intents` transactions on
the contract's shard, keeps the `token_diff` legs whose receipt succeeded and
whose intent is in `intents_executed`, and records one trade per asset/counter
pair per outcome, counting each unit once whichever side the taker was on.

- core: event parsing, trade building, shard lookup, price and VWAP, tested
  against the logs of mainnet tx 85uy9uCF (USDT on Tron for ZEC).
- data: a NEAR client over the existing RpcClient, live then archival;
  migration 0009 (intents_trade, intents_scan, near_token).
- api: a contiguous-cursor scan and a supply/listing poll per chain, and
  GET /v1/chains/{chain}/intents/{swaps,price}. Prices are in counter-token
  units; no USD until a stablecoin is named by contract.

Gated on `[chains.intents]`, which the config template leaves commented out:
FastNEAR's free RPC sustains about two requests a second against ~1.7 needed
to follow the tip, and neardata allows 30 blocks a minute. It waits for our
own node. A test renders the template and fails if the block is enabled.

Verified end to end against mainnet with ZEC configured: the trade at NEAR
218,261,895 was recorded and served by both routes.

Refs #27

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015pkwBsR54NRmZyU4QVhvfj
2026-10-03 18:35:32 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 6c79718ff1 docs: issues live at blackbeard/observer
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The repository moved from quantus/blackbeard.observer. Gitea redirects the
web URL, but the MCP issue API does not follow it, so filing #24 against the
old path failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E4Ldjix2ofMdQ7dzqgnYA8
2026-09-22 15:29:03 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 501a9e6ad4 fix(data): re-read event history under the current keep policy
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Until 1e8869e the backfill kept only MiningRewards::* and Balances::Transfer.
The skip-list that replaced that allowlist only applied to blocks read after
the deploy, and event_scan never revisits a range it has claimed. So on
mainnet every block below 18510 has no Wormhole::* (or any other newly kept
kind) while indexed_from says 1. Planck and Heisenberg have the same hole over
whatever they had read by then.

This was found checking #22's endpoint against a mining address whose
deposits began at transfer_count 17,142. A mainnet node decodes
Wormhole::NativeTransferred in blocks 18400 and 18509, under the same spec 152
as the indexed blocks.

Migration 0008 collapses each chain's cursor to its top (low = high), so the
backfill walks back to genesis again. record_events and record_extrinsics
upsert on their primary keys, so re-reading is safe. Until the walk finishes,
indexed_from reports the real, shrinking gap. CLAUDE.md now says that keeping
more events needs a migration like this one.

Closes #23

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012uDUodEcRbBwNRi3UCmw8f
2026-09-16 17:23:34 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 6ed9a6c35a feat: an about route, and somewhere to say thanks
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Adds `/:chain/about`, linked from the header just before the connection light
and the theme toggle — it is about the site rather than the chain, so it sits
there instead of in the section nav, and `header: true` on its `SECTIONS` entry
keeps it out while still letting the URL parse.

The page says what the observer is, that it and the CUDA-optimised miner are
built and freely sourced by a member of the Quantus user community rather than
by the project, and takes donations in QTC.

**The QR is generated in the browser from the address printed beside it, never
shipped as an image.** A supplied PNG next to a typed address is two
independent claims about where money goes, and nothing on the page could tell a
reader if they ever stopped agreeing — a mismatch sends funds somewhere
unrecoverable.

Verified rather than trusted. The address was put through this crate's own SS58
decoder: checksum and network prefix both hold, and it round-trips to the same
string. The QR matrix was then decoded from first principles — function-pattern
map, mask 3 unapplied, codewords de-interleaved across version 4-M's two blocks
— and reads back the address exactly. A note for whoever checks this again: an
independent encoder produces a different matrix for the same string at every
mask, because mode segmentation differs, so comparing matrices proves nothing
and only a decode does.

`the_donation_address_on_the_site_is_a_valid_quantus_address` reads the literal
out of the frontend source and validates it, so a typo fails CI rather than
costing somebody their money. Confirmed to fail on one changed character.

Also on the vesting page, from verifying it live: a "claimable now" figure and
a per-grant claimable column. Two grants began vesting at launch while the other
forty-six wait for 2027, so 68,871 QTC is already claimable and none of it has
been taken — a page that only said "first claimable" would have missed it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 16:48:21 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 2bbe8e4d5d feat: a vesting route — when 99.5% of the supply actually arrives
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The network page said 5,669,940 QTC sits in the vesting pot and stopped there,
which is the largest economic fact about this chain rendered as a single
number. `/:chain/vesting` now carries the schedules, the release curve and the
evidence.

It is the only forward-looking page on the site and it is exact rather than
projected: the runtime vests nothing before a grant's cliff, the whole grant
from its end, and linearly between, so summing that across the schedules is
arithmetic on chain state. `blackbeard-core::vesting` restates those three
branches with tests, because until 2027 nothing on chain will contradict them —
covering the cliff, the mid-window, the `end` branch that makes the final
figure exactly `total` rather than `total` less a rounding crumb, the
`start < cliff` case that unlocks a chunk at once, and a grant large enough
that `total × elapsed` would wrap a `u128` if the product were not split.

Decoded by field name against the metadata, never by offset. The figures that
justified building this were read positionally out of 89 bytes and summed to
the pot exactly — good evidence the layout was guessed right, and exactly the
shortcut this repository forbids elsewhere. A captured mainnet entry now pins
the names, so a reordered struct fails the build rather than quietly paying the
wrong address.

It also retires a weak claim. "Held in the vesting pot" rested on an eight-byte
`PalletId` spelling `qvesting` and a `type PalletId` line read from a source
tree that may not be the deployed commit. `matches_pot` replaces that with
arithmetic: the grants sum to the pot's balance to within the existential
deposit, and if a grant is ended or the pot topped up the page says the two
have parted company rather than going on describing one as the other.

Measured: 48 grants, 5,669,940.000 QTC scheduled against 5,669,940.001 held,
nothing claimed, first unlock 2027-09-09, fully vested 2030-09-08.

`Field` becomes one component instead of four. Going to add a fourth copy found
that the three had already parted company — two rendered `note` as a visible
caption, the third passed it to `title` as a hover — so the shared one takes
both as separate props rather than silently changing a page. The same lesson
`isStandings` records, found the same way.

Closes #21

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 16:31:53 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 da7f773564 feat: how concentrated the balance is, once the treasury is set aside
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The last piece of #17. It was specified as "the share of issuance held by the
top 1, 10 and 100" plus a Gini, and done literally that produces a number that
is true and says nothing — because the top account is the vesting pot holding
99.5% of the chain. The figure would sit near 1.000 and move only when the pot
paid out, describing an undistributed reserve rather than an economy.

So the pot is reported first and then excluded, by its own storage key rather
than by being the largest: "the biggest account" is a description that would
silently start meaning something else the day the pot drains. Everything else
is computed over what is left and labelled as being outside it.

The denominator is the counted balance, not issuance. The two differ, and in
the direction that matters: a wormhole exit credits its destination without
debiting the note's source, so balances summed across the chain exceed
issuance, and shares of issuance would add up to more than everything.

Measured on mainnet: 1,949 accounts, 27,245 QTC outside the pot, top 1 at
39.6%, top 10 at 72.2%, top 100 at 92.2%, Gini 0.965. That top holder is a
mining address — keyless, its balance a cumulative receipt that cannot fall
however much its operator pays out — so the panel says in its own words that
this is partly a statement about who mined most rather than who holds most.

The Gini lives in `blackbeard-core` with its own tests, per the rule about
statistics being easy to overstate and hard to notice: pinned against the
published coefficient for 1,2,3,4, and against a dust holder beside two whales,
which is the case an `f64` accumulator would round away and report as perfect
equality between the whales.

`RpcClient::storage_values` is new — `state_queryStorageAt`, which turns two
thousand round trips into four. Chunked at 500 rather than sent whole because
nothing documents a ceiling here, and an undocumented ceiling is one that gets
discovered in production.

Nothing renders unless the account walk reached the end of the map. Every share
divides by a total, and a partial sum makes all of them wrong while looking
entirely reasonable.

Closes #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 15:32:11 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 67e7b2ec24 fix: the waiting counter was never once visible
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It refused to count until a block arrived while the page was open, on the
grounds that the block the snapshot hands over on load may be a minute old and
starting it at zero would lie. That was honest and completely useless: on
mainnet the block that triggers the counter is the same block that puts the
first row in the console, so it became visible and unnecessary in the same
tick. Reported from the live site after a refresh — the placeholder was still
there, because the counter had no window in which to exist.

It now seeds from the snapshot's block. The ticking is still
`performance.now()`, which cannot be skewed or stepped; only the seed can be
inexact, and only for that first block, whose age nothing but the server's
`observed_at` can attest. A seed outside a plausible range is refused outright
and the plain text stands — no counter beats a wrong one.

Measured against the live API: the counter appears within 800ms of load
reading "26,378 ms since #43,588", climbs, and gives way to rows about two
seconds later, which is how long the console is honestly empty.

Also recorded, because it wasted a verification: `/v1/healthz`'s `commit` is
stamped into the API binary, so a frontend-only push leaves it on the previous
sha *forever*. A watcher polling it for the sha just pushed waits for something
that will never arrive and reports "still deploying" over a site that finished
minutes ago. Compare the served bundle name to the local build instead — Vite
hashes it by content, so equal names mean byte-identical.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 14:45:39 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 578a54ef87 fix: the backfill was re-announcing blocks the console had already shown
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The wormhole pulse was broadcast from inside `index_events`, which has two
callers: `record`, for a block that just arrived, and `backfill`, walking
history. So the backfill re-announced every block it re-read — and because it
walks towards the tip, the blocks it re-announced were exactly the ones a
viewer had just watched. The live console listed #43,446 three times.

This is the live/backfill confusion this repository has already been bitten by
twice, arriving by a third road, so the guard is a type rather than a comment:
`Pass::Live` or `Pass::Backfill`, and a caller cannot forget to say which.

The duplicates did more damage than repeating themselves. Console lines were
keyed `height-index`, which looked unique and was not, and React given
duplicate keys renders duplicates *and* stops honouring the list's own length
cap — twelve lines had become eighteen on screen. Lines are keyed on a
monotonic counter now, so a reorg re-recording a height cannot reproduce it.

Neither half was caught by the build, the lint, or the tests. Both were
obvious within a minute of watching the live page.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 14:12:41 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 ad22866d3c feat(ui): say what each mark was
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The stage drew a dot per note and left the reader to guess. A dot travelling
inward could be anybody paying anybody, and without text beside it the
animation is an ornament rather than a reading of the chain.

Each pulse now carries a sample of the individual notes — kind, recipient,
amount — and a console below the stage lists them newest-first, the way the
block ticker reads, which also means no auto-scroll to fight with and the line
a reader is looking for never moves.

`kind` is the third split this codebase makes on the producing extrinsic and
the first that separates all three cases: a reward has no extrinsic at all
because it is paid in block initialisation, a transfer has an ordinary one, and
an exit has a `verify_*_batch`. The recorded sender distinguishes none of them.

Two caps, and they turned out to interact. `MAX_PULSE_NOTES` bounds the wire —
a block has carried hundreds of notes and sending every one for a handful of
lines is kilobytes a block of text nobody reads. `CONSOLE_LINES_PER_BLOCK`
bounds one block's share of the console, because without it a single busy block
fills every line and twelve lines from one block look exactly like twelve
blocks of one, which loses the reader all sense of rate.

The count of what is not shown hangs on the block's first line rather than its
last: the list is newest-first, so a count on the last line is the first thing
trimmed, and a block of 260 showed four notes while saying nothing about it.
That one reached a screenshot before it was caught.

The console fills before the reduced-motion guard, so a viewer who asked for
less motion still gets the whole reading — twelve lines, no moving marks,
population still drawn, caption still live.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 14:01:16 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 4f59af9847 feat(ui): the wormhole holds what it has swallowed
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The stage drew the flow and nothing else, which on a chain committing about
1.9 notes a block and settling an exit every fifth one meant it was nearly
always still. That was honest and it was also nearly empty, while the page's
headline figure — tens of thousands of notes committed and not yet spent — sat
in a box beside it. The mouth now holds a sample of that population, turning
slowly, with arriving notes passing in front of it on their way in.

The stock is read, never inferred. A pulse's `notes_out` is an exit crediting
an account, and `credit_and_record` inserts a fresh leaf for that credit, so an
exit adds a note rather than retiring one; what retires a note is a nullifier,
and those are not counted per block. Accumulating pulses into the figure would
drift from the truth while looking authoritative, so it is re-read from the
chain every two minutes instead.

It turns in CSS rather than in the animation loop. The flight marks stop when
the chain is quiet, but the population is always there, and a JS loop running
forever on a page left open all day is a cost this does not need to pay. Each
shell is a ring of marks on a circle inside a vertically squashed group, so one
composited rotation traces an ellipse in the mouth's own plane. Reduced motion
stops the turning and keeps the marks: how much is inside is the information.

One mark stands for many and the caption says how many, whether or not a block
has arrived yet — forty-five turning marks with nothing explaining them would
be worse than none.

Flight time goes from 1.5s to 5s, measured against the real rate rather than
the mock that made the first version look busy: at twelve-second blocks the few
notes there are now overlap instead of appearing alone.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 13:44:56 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 c08face7ad feat(ui): a live wormhole, drawn from the blocks as they land
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The wormhole page described a pool that was never shown doing anything. It now
opens with a stage where a note arriving falls inward and is swallowed, and a
note leaving climbs out and escapes — driven entirely by blocks this observer
has actually decoded. Nothing is on a loop: a still stage means a still chain.

`index_events` now reports what each block did to the pool, split by the
producing extrinsic exactly as the daily flow query and `exit_cohorts` are —
a settled batch releases value, anything else commits it, and the recorded
sender cannot say because it is the same sentinel either way. The exit
extrinsics are collected inside `index_extrinsics`, the one place the body is
already decoded; finding them in a second pass would re-run `decode_extrinsic`
over Dilithium signatures at 5.3 KiB apiece.

It is broadcast after the block rather than inside it, because the counts cost
two more round trips and the site's ticker must not wait for one panel. A block
that touched no notes broadcasts nothing.

On the front end the pulse takes a side channel — `Observer.onWormhole`, apart
from the state listeners — because a pulse is an event, not a fact about the
page, and routing it through `ObserverState` would re-render the leaderboard,
the ticker and the whole tree once per block for one animation. Marks are
pooled SVG nodes mutated from a loop that starts on a pulse and ends itself.

Honest by construction: marks are capped and the caption is not, so a block
committing 900 notes draws 28 and says nine hundred. `prefers-reduced-motion`
stops the motion and keeps the information — no marks, caption still live,
aria-label still describing the last block.

The stage takes the headline stat row's place on this page. Hashrate,
difficulty, block time, miners and height are on every other page and say
nothing about the pool.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 12:58:16 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 864a76ffb6 feat(ui): show what goes into the wormhole and what comes out
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The wormhole page counted the pool but never drew the flow through it. It now
leads with a meter — 42% of every note ever created is still unspent — and a
per-day chart of value arriving against value leaving.

Direction is read from the producing extrinsic, never from the sender, which
is the same sentinel whichever way the value is going: anything settled by
`verify_public_batch` or `verify_private_batch` is leaving, everything else is
arriving. `entered + left` reconciles to the day's total exactly.

**The chart is diverging with a single hue.** In and out want two hues either
side of a neutral midpoint, and this site has one data colour. The two-shade
alternative was measured rather than assumed and fails outright — `#bd8829`
against `#e0a63a` scores a normal-vision ΔE of 9.9, under the 15 floor. So
direction is carried by which side of the zero rule a bar sits on, which
survives greyscale, print, forced-colors and every form of colour vision, and
leaves no categorical pair to validate.

Rendering it is what found the rest. Same hue plus touching bars drew one
continuous mark through the rule and the encoding disappeared, so a surface gap
is held open at zero. Five days across a full-width panel drew 170px slabs, so
bar width is capped and the columns space out instead. And `rx` rounds all four
corners of a rect, so bars read as detached lozenges until they became paths
with rounded data-ends only.

Ships with the hover layer, direct labels on the busiest day each way, and a
visually-hidden table so the series exists outside the picture.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 12:06:57 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 f81ebd4746 feat: who the wormhole exits pay, and how much of it is the protocol itself
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The premise was that pools are the best surface for observing wormhole
transfers, because payouts must leave a pattern in the batches. The pattern
is there. Most of it is not payouts.

Two things break the obvious reading. Batch *size* is aggregation: the pallet
documents a public batch as one segment per inner private batch and a segment
as one client, so a 120-output batch is an aggregator bundling unrelated
people. And the most recurrent recipient is the aggregator itself — one
address is credited in 91.5% of every public batch anyone submitted and in
none of the private ones, which is the rebate minted to the proof's
`aggregator_address`. QUANPOOL's mining address appears in 501 batches for
7.54 QTC total, 0.015 each: the fee share paid to whoever included the batch.

Classified, three addresses take 76% of everything the exits pay. A cohort
table that did not say so would be describing aggregator plumbing and calling
it an economy, so the share is the section's eyebrow and its first sentence.

What survives the subtraction is the finding worth shipping: among genuine
recipients, 35 addresses paid twenty or more times take two thirds of the
remaining value at twice everyone else's average credit. That is a
recurring-payment shape and the page says it is no more than that — the chain
records no sender, so a regular payee is as plausibly an exchange deposit or
one person on a schedule as a pool meeting its obligations.

Batch size is not rendered anywhere, on purpose.

Closes #20

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 11:49:48 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 4d9d41888a fix: a miner's balance is a receipt total, and the supply figures were wrong
Two claims this repository shipped, both disproved by measuring mainnet.

**A mining address is keyless, so its balance can only rise.** `retained`
was documented here as "the one measure privacy cannot hide", reasoning that
a payment debits the account whichever route it takes. It does not.
`mining-rewards` pays `derive_wormhole_address(preimage)`, which no Dilithium
keypair signs for, and `Wormhole::credit_and_record` credits an exit's
destination with `Unbalanced::increase_balance` while never debiting the
note's source. QUANPOOL's balance rose at all twelve samples between blocks
1,000 and 42,400 and fell at none, nonce 0 throughout — as every miner's must.

So `retained` read ~100% for everyone because it had to, and a number
identical for all reads as an accusation aimed at whoever mined most. The
column is gone, `balance` is `received`, and the table says plainly that a
pool paying out in full and one paying nothing produce the same row.

**Four empty lock maps are not "nothing is withheld".** Locks, Holds,
Freezes and Reserves are all empty — counted, not assumed — and the network
page concluded circulating equals total issuance. Wrong by a factor of 436:
this runtime vests from a *pot*, not with locks, and `modlqvesting` holds
5,669,940 QTC, 99.54% of every unit of balance on the chain. The page now
reports the pot and issuance-minus-pot, and still declines the word
"circulating" because the release schedule is not read here.

The pot address is derived from `Vesting::PalletId` in metadata rather than
a hard-coded `qvesting`: it is a consequence of a runtime constant, and a
runtime that changed it would leave the site reporting an empty pot while
looking perfectly healthy. Both steps are pinned against the real mainnet
metadata fixture.

Also recorded: never sum account balances and call it supply. They exceed
`TotalIssuance` by 13,427 QTC at block 42,400 and by exactly zero at genesis,
bisecting to block 4,800 and a `verify_public_batch` — private value is
counted twice by any such total. Single blocks reconcile exactly, so a spot
check says everything is fine.

Refs #17
Closes #19

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 11:43:39 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 e3c95d4945 feat: a wormhole page — what enters, what leaves, what is still inside
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The observer had nothing to say about this chain's central feature, which is
why the distribution table's outflow column could ship reading zero for every
miner and look like evidence.

A transfer inserts a commitment as a note; spending one proves a nullifier,
which the runtime records so it cannot be spent twice. That makes the pool
countable even though its movements are not:

    ZkTree::LeafCount           82,691   notes created
    Wormhole::UsedNullifiers    47,796   notes spent
    outstanding                 34,895   unspent — still inside

Outstanding is the headline. It is the part of the chain's activity that has not
moved, and every one of those notes will name a recipient and an amount and not
a sender when it does.

The routes table separates transfers by the extrinsic that produced them,
because a hidden sender means two different things. In block initialisation it
is the chain paying a miner and the "sender" is the runtime; inside
`verify_public_batch` or `verify_private_batch` it is somebody spending a note
and the origin genuinely is not recorded. Collapsing those would make mining
rewards look like anonymous payments — 23,876 of them.

Notes per day come from the `leaf_index` each transfer carries rather than from
`ZkTree::LeafInserted`, which is in `SKIPPED_EVENTS` because it fires every block
and names no account. Same fact, cheaper road.

`SegmentsDenied` and `ExitMintFailed` have never fired. Shown anyway, because a
proof rejection nobody has ever seen is a finding rather than a gap — though it
is a weaker statement than it looks, and the note says so: never refused is not
the same as never attempted.

Closes #18

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2026-09-14 09:32:27 +03:00
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The distribution table shipped with a `sent on` column reading zero for every
miner, which implies nothing left those addresses. On this chain that is not
what a zero means, and the correction came from the observation that payouts are
themselves wormhole transactions.

`Wormhole::NativeTransferred` records `to` and `amount` and does not record who
sent it. Splitting the events by the extrinsic that produced them shows what
that costs:

    (no extrinsic — initialisation)  hidden   23,876 events    72 recipients
    Utility::batch_all               visible  15,303        2,145
    Wormhole::verify_public_batch    hidden    8,136          538
    Balances::transfer_allow_death   visible   6,941          651
    Wormhole::verify_private_batch   hidden    1,758          116

Hidden-sender transfers in block initialisation are mining rewards. The 9,894
produced by `verify_public_batch` and `verify_private_batch`, reaching 654
recipients, are real payments with no origin recorded — the chain's privacy
working as designed. So the column was blind to exactly the mechanism a
wormhole-held balance would use to pay out, while reading as proof it had not.

It is `sent visibly` now, the note leads with the limit rather than burying it,
and a `retained` column carries the one measure privacy cannot hide: balance
over what the chain paid in. A payment debits the account whichever route it
takes, so a balance that has never fallen is a balance nothing has left.

A second correction, from running the table over the full index rather than a
dev slice: *every* one of the top 25 miners shows zero visible outflow and holds
almost exactly what it mined, including another address calling itself
`quantus-mainnet-pool`. Zero outflow is universal among mining addresses and
distinguishes nobody. The accounts distributing to hundreds of recipients have
never mined a block — they are funded from the genesis endowment — so setting a
miner beside them is a category error, and one this repository made before the
numbers came in.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 09:23:10 +03:00
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A table on the network page: each miner's share of blocks, what the chain paid
it, what it holds, what it has sent on, and to how many distinct addresses.

Built to answer a concern without ever being the thing that makes the
accusation. There is no badge, no flag and no word like "delinquent" anywhere in
it. What earns it its place is comparison — one miner's recipient count says
almost nothing, and beside its neighbours' it says a great deal — so the reader
draws the conclusion and the site lays out the evidence and names its limits.

Three limits are on the page, not in a footnote:

- an operator may hold several addresses, settle off-chain, or be a solo miner
  keeping what it earned, which is the ordinary case and unremarkable
- `sent on` counts only transfers out of the address the chain pays, so an
  operator distributing from a different wallet shows nothing
- the name column is the weakest and comes from telemetry rather than the chain.
  There is no such thing as a "pool" here: the word appears only inside a name
  an operator chose for its own node

`holds` is chain state and `mined`/`sent on`/`recipients` are over the indexed
range, which the note spells out — on a partially indexed chain a miner appears
to hold far more than it ever mined, and that discrepancy looks exactly like the
thing the table is for.

The window is fixed at 100,800 blocks rather than carried from the route: the
window selector is hidden on this page, so the route's value would mean the
shares silently reflect whatever span the reader last chose on the standings,
invisibly and differently for two people reading the same page. The longest
window is also the right one for the question — what a miner did with its
rewards is about the chain's history, not its last hour.

Refs #17

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-14 09:03:48 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 aaf37baaca feat: a network page — supply, capability and daily activity
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The site answered "who is mining" thoroughly and "what is this economy doing"
not at all. Everything needed was already reachable and none of it was
assembled anywhere.

Measured against mainnet rather than assumed:

    total issuance      5,682,913.17 QTC
    endowed at genesis  5,670,000.00 QTC
    mined since          12,913.17 QTC   <- emission to date, printed nowhere else
    accounts                    1,925    counted, not inferred from indexed events
    locks/holds/freezes/reserves    0    all four, counted
    vesting schedules              48
    referenda                       0
    reversible transfers            0
    calls used                 7 of 58
    events fired              18 of 107

**No "circulating supply" field, deliberately.** With every immobilising map
empty it would equal total issuance exactly, and printing it as a separate
headline would assert a distinction this chain does not currently make. The page
states what was counted and lets that be read. Vesting is a count rather than a
sum for the same reason: this runtime's vesting does not touch the balances
locks, so what it holds and when it releases would be a guess.

**Signed extrinsics are separated from the total**, because three quarters of
this chain's extrinsics are inherents — 513 signed of 2,052 on the day measured
— and a single "transactions per day" line would be mostly clockwork, a number
that reads as adoption and is not.

Two kinds of certainty share the page and are kept apart. Supply and the map
sizes are chain state, read now. The daily activity is our index, and the
Activity panel prints the range it covered and says "the whole chain" or "a
partial index" — a chart whose axis claims a month over a week of data is the
failure this repository has already shipped twice.

One thing found while building it: a counter that has never moved is *absent*
from storage, not zero. `TechReferenda::ReferendumCount` and
`ReversibleTransfers::NextTransactionId` both read as nothing, and reporting
them unknown would have hidden the most interesting fact about them — that
governance and reversible transfers are shipped and have never been used.
`plain_value` falls back to the entry's declared default, which is only sound
because `StorageTarget` says whether it is `Default` or `Optional`.

Refs #17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-14 08:43:13 +03:00
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Reported: the board was still rendering beneath the node route. It was a fourth
place spelling out "is this the standings?" by hand — the board's own render
condition, which I missed when extracting `isStandings` for the other three.

That predicate now has one definition and four callers: the section nav, the
window selector, the canonicalising redirect, and the board. Grepped for
survivors; there are none.

Worth recording how both node-route bugs were found, because it is the same
lesson twice in one feature: the route parsed, the page existed, every gate was
green, and only opening the page in a browser showed that the address bar threw
it away the first time and that thirty mining rows sat under it the second.

Checked: `/quantus/node/<peer>` renders one panel, no `.two-col`, no board rows.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
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grenadeandClaude Opus 5 fac73f392c feat: a nodes index, so a node need not have mined to be visible
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Reported: `baba-gorchitsa` shows its hardware on telemetry.quantus.com and
nothing here. Not a decoding failure — we held the data. Measured, the same node
on both chains at the same moment:

    quantus  attribution=carried, 0 votes, 33 blocks   on the feed: yes
    planck   attribution=telemetry, 1 vote, 2969 blocks on the feed: no

Exactly inverted. On mainnet we had the metadata and no join to it; on Planck
the join and no node. The mainnet name is *carried* from Planck, and
`Attribution::peer_id` is `None` for anything but a telemetry attribution
because there is no node behind a carried name — that reasoning stands. The
mistake was upstream: node metadata was reachable *only* through the mining
inference, and the feed hands us every node unconditionally. 288 on mainnet, of
which a handful have ever won a block.

So `/:chain/node` lists all of them and `/:chain/node/:peer` is one, neither
gated on mining. The index merges the live feed over the cache, so a node not
re-announced since our last restart still appears, faint, with its peer count
absent rather than stale — a peer count from an hour ago is not a peer count.
Live rows sort first, then by name, and the filter matches name, peer id, CPU,
version or country, because "find my node" is the question the page exists for.

The miner panel now links to the node's own page instead of being the only way
to see it.

`reported` beside the count is the feed's own `AddedChain` figure and will not
match in either direction — 284 against 288 listed, measured, because it is a
snapshot the feed refreshes on its own cadence. Shown next to our count rather
than instead of it, since the difference is a real fact about how each was
arrived at. My first comment claimed it was "usually larger"; it was smaller the
first time I looked at it.

One trap caught in the browser rather than by the type checker: "is this the
standings?" existed three times, and adding a section updated two. The redirect
in `App` judged `/quantus/node/<peer>` to be the standings and replaced it with
`/quantus/3600-blocks` — route parsed, page existed, address bar threw it away.
It is `isStandings` now, in one place.

Closes #16

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-13 19:19:58 +03:00
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Caches what the telemetry feed says each node *is*, and surfaces it on the miner
route: client version, target triple, CPU, cores, memory, kernel, distribution,
whether it is virtualised, country, and how long the node process has been up.

Kept in `node_telemetry`, keyed by peer id — never by the feed's `node_id`,
which is per-connection and would accumulate a row per reconnect for the same
machine. Written every five minutes rather than every thirty seconds like the
attributions beside it: a CPU does not change, and mainnet alone has nearly
three hundred nodes. The route reads the live feed first and the cache second,
so a node the feed has not re-announced since our last restart still answers.

Nulls never overwrite. The telemetry server geolocates asynchronously, so every
reconnect re-sends every node with a null location — a naive upsert would blank
the country of every node on the site for as long as the lookups took to catch
up. The guard is in the feed state and in the `on conflict` clause both, with a
test for each.

**Location is a country and no finer.** The feed sends coordinates and a city
from an IP geolocation database, and at city resolution those are wrong often
enough that showing one would assert something nobody knows.
`blackbeard_core::geo` derives the country offline from a 508 KiB boundary set —
no network call, and nothing told where these nodes are — and the coordinates
are then dropped. The schema has no city, latitude or longitude column: a column
that does not exist cannot be rendered by mistake. The lookup returns
subdivisions before countries and `GB-ENG` is exactly the precision being
avoided, so only the two-letter code survives.

**The panel wears its uncertainty in the header, not a footnote.** A miner is
joined to a node by the same first-reporter voting that gives it a display name,
so `Attribution` now carries the peer id it settled on — `None` for a preimage
or a carried name, because there is no node behind either. The heading reads
"reported by" and the confidence and vote count sit beside it. The note says the
CPU is the node's and not necessarily what is hashing: on this network the work
is on GPUs that telemetry does not report at all.

Checked against the live feed end to end, not a fixture: real frames decoded,
cached, served and rendered. One node reports an Ubuntu userspace on a Fedora
kernel, which is a container seeing its host — the panel shows that faithfully
rather than tidying it away.

Closes #15

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-13 17:26:28 +03:00
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I closed #14 on an incomplete fix. Heisenberg still reports **0.054 s/block**
while producing one block every five minutes — 5,500x too fast — with the
running code already correct.

Fixing the code did not fix the rows already written. `at_tip` in the table is
whatever the process that wrote it believed, and every process before the
receipt-stamping fix believed a drained channel was a tip observation. Those
rows are still there, and `restore_ticker_and_timing` replays them on every
start, so the bug comes back from storage each time a chain is restarted after a
catch-up. Heisenberg produces a block every five minutes, which is far too slow
to accumulate twenty fresh samples before the next restart, so it never got the
chance to correct itself.

Restored samples are now checked against the one clock the observer cannot fake.
At the tip a block is seen roughly when it is authored, so the span the observer
recorded should resemble the span the chain recorded for the same blocks.
Propagation and skew are seconds; a catch-up is a factor. A batch that fails is
left unrestored and timing starts fresh — nominal, and labelled nominal.

The threshold is deliberately loose (half) because it only has to separate two
populations that differ by orders of magnitude, and being generous to honest
skew costs nothing: the penalty for a false negative is one window of nominal
hashrate, and for a false positive it is a headline wrong by 5,000x.

Reopens #14 — closing it again when all three chains have held a plausible
interval across a restart, rather than when the code looks right.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-10 18:14:53 +03:00
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`bucketing` mapped each window to a fixed duration — `600 blocks -> 1 hour`,
`3,600 -> 6 hours` — which is only true at a 6 s target. It was the last place
still assuming a window's block count implies a duration, which is the
assumption the rename retired.

On Planck the gap is visible: its rate fell ninefold when its miners left for
mainnet, so a 600-block window spans about five hours, and the chart underneath
was drawing one. A miner's rank was computed over one period and its history
plotted over another, with nothing on the page saying so.

The range is the window's measured span now, with buckets sized to hit
`MINER_SERIES_POINTS`, so a chart stays the same width in points however fast
the chain is running. Where no span is measured yet — only before the window has
filled — it falls back to the block count at the chain's target rate, which is
the same guess the old table encoded.

Bounded at both ends, because a measurement can be extreme in both directions: a
floor so a burst cannot collapse the chart to minutes, a ceiling so
`100800-blocks` on a slow chain cannot ask the database for a year of buckets.

Closes #14

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
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The gap-fill guard fixed the coarse half of #14 — Planck went from 0.175 s/block
to 4.9 — and left the rest standing. Measured just now against a real ~30 s on
Planck and ~6 s on Heisenberg:

    quantus     9.59 s     plausible
    planck      4.919 s    six times too fast
    heisenberg  0.052 s    a hundred times too fast

`record` stamped `observed_at` with `Utc::now()`, which runs *after* two RPC
round trips and behind a 64-deep channel. On a remote endpoint those round trips
are hundreds of milliseconds, so heads queue and then drain in a burst — a batch
carrying near-identical observation times while their heights march on.
`measured_interval` divides elapsed time by height difference and reads that as
a chain producing blocks twenty times faster than it does.

`observed_at` means "when this observer saw it", so it is now stamped where the
frame is read off the socket: `subscribe_new_heads` sends a `SeenHead` carrying
that moment and `record` uses it rather than asking the clock again. Every
consumer improves at once, because the same field is the DB row, the ticker's
gap, and the tip sample.

Worth noting what this does *not* need: no threshold, no plausibility check, no
discarding of samples. The measurement was always sound; it was being given the
wrong time.

Refs #14

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
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`npx tsc --noEmit` and `npx vite build` pass code that `pnpm build` rejects: the
first resolves a different project graph, the second type-checks nothing. Write
down the commands the workflow actually runs so the next person runs those.

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Planck's page reported a **0.175 s** block time against a true 29.8 — a factor
of 170 — flagged *measured* rather than nominal, so the headline block time, the
network hashrate (877 GH/s on a testnet nobody mines) and the window label were
all wrong and none of them looked it.

`measured_interval` divides elapsed time by height difference, which is the
chain's rate only if every height between two samples was watched arriving. A
gap fill is proof they were not. `record()` marked every head-stream block
`at_tip: true`, including the head that landed right after `fill_gap` closed a
1,251-block gap — so the pair straddling it measured how fast this observer
caught up. `ingest` now forgets its tip samples whenever it fills a gap and
records the closing head with `at_tip: false`. The interval goes nominal until
twenty fresh samples exist, which is `MIN_TIP_SAMPLES` doing its job: nominal
and labelled nominal beats measured and wrong.

The reported symptom was smaller and had the same root. `baba-gorchitsa` showed
three blocks in Planck's "six hours" having left for mainnet a day earlier — and
it was right to: 3,600 Planck blocks currently span **29 hours**, because the
chain's rate fell ninefold when its miners left. The label was built by
multiplying the block count by the current interval, which describes the rate
now rather than the period covered. It comes from `span_seconds` instead — the
authored-time span of exactly the blocks tallied, already the denominator of
every per-miner hashrate — and carries no "~", because nothing is estimated.

So the names went too. A window is a block count, and calling one `six_hours` is
a promise the site cannot keep on a chain whose rate moves; `/planck/six_hours`
was the reason a reader believed a day-old row was current. The selector reads
600 / 3.6k / 14.4k / 100.8k and the URL carries the count. Less friendly than
`6h`, and true on every chain. The old names still parse and are never emitted,
so shared links keep working — the router rewrites them.

Closes #14

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-10 14:32:11 +03:00
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Dark, light, or whatever the browser asks for. Auto is the default, so a reader
who has never touched it gets their own system's answer rather than ours.

The light palette is selected, not inverted. `#bd8829` carries every magnitude
on this site at 6.6:1 against the warm-black and **2.77:1** against paper — the
validator says so, and 2.77 is under the 3:1 floor a mark has to clear. So light
mode gets its own step of the same bronze, and its `--data-bright` sits *darker*
than `--data`, because emphasis on paper is weight rather than glare. Same for
the washes: a glow at 0.08 alpha on warm-black is a smear at 0.08 on paper, so
the nine colour literals that were still loose in the stylesheet became tokens —
each one was a colour the second theme could not have overridden.

Every value was chosen by running the dataviz validator against the surface it
actually sits on, both modes. The single-hue rule is untouched and still
load-bearing in both: bronze and crimson fail CVD separation as a categorical
pair whichever ground they are on.

`auto` is a preference rather than a third palette. It resolves to a concrete
`light` or `dark` before the stylesheet ever sees it, which is what keeps this to
one definition per palette instead of one per palette per media query — and it
has to resolve before the *first paint*, because anything running after the
bundle loads runs after the page has been painted once, and on a light
preference that is a full-screen flash of warm-black. Hence the inline script,
whose duplication of `lib/theme.ts` is the cheaper of the two costs.

Two things that would otherwise bite: `localStorage` throws rather than returning
null where site data is blocked, so every access is guarded and falls back to
what the browser wants; and `auto` keeps listening, so a machine that turns dark
at sunset does not leave a reader on the daylight palette until they reload.

The toggle shows the state it is in, never the state it would move to — a control
that displays its own destination is why these get guessed at — and its
accessible name carries that state, since the icon cannot.

Checked in a browser, both themes, on the standings, a miner page and the share
chart. Worth recording what that turned up: dark carries 46 text elements under
4.5:1 and light carries 3, each beating its dark counterpart. The gap is
`--text-muted` at 3.7, the deliberate existing value CLAUDE.md has always
documented — not introduced here, and not something to change without deciding
to change the dark design.

Closes #12

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
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Failover moved on a transport failure and never on a JSON-RPC error, both
right — but a node that has pruned the state being asked for does neither. It
answers `{"result": null}`, which is a success, so whichever endpoint happened
to be sticky decided how far back the whole site could see.

The tempting fix is wrong. Null is also the correct answer for most keys read
here: an account with no balance, an item never set, the treasury's
`System::Account` entry, absent because the treasury was never funded. Retrying
every one of those against every endpoint would multiply the load to re-derive
an answer already in hand, and still end in null. The distinction is not in the
response — it is whether the node could have known, which is a property of the
endpoint.

So `classify_depth` probes each one at startup, reading `System::Number` at
block one. That key is derived in a test rather than pasted, because a mistyped
key is absent everywhere and would classify every endpoint as pruned. An
endpoint that answers holds all state after block one; one that cannot be
reached stays `Unknown` and routes as pruned, since an unreachable host must not
become the archive of record by default.

Reads naming a block hash then go through `call_deep`. It tries the sticky
endpoint first, so the common case — mainnet's loopback node, which is an
archive — costs no extra round trip. Only a null from an endpoint never shown to
hold old state buys a second opinion, and `state_call`'s refusal is treated the
same way, because that is how difficulty is read and a node that cannot execute
against dropped state errors rather than returning null.

All seven configured endpoints probe as archives right now, so this changes no
current behaviour. It is what stops history going quietly blank the day one of
them stops being one — and it says so in the log when it happens, because an
endpoint that cannot see as far back as the site is asking is a configuration
fact worth surfacing rather than a chain fact.

Closes #9

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
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Two faults, one visible symptom: both testnet leaderboards frozen for a day at
the height their gap opened at, while mainnet was fine.

The daemon had aborted 316 times in ten hours, always identically —
`memory allocation of 82014765760 bytes failed`, 76.4 GiB. That is
1,025,184,572 x 80, and 80 is `size_of::<scale_value::Value<u32>>()`:
scale-value sizes a sequence's `Vec` from the compact length in the blob before
decoding a single item, so a blob that disagrees with the registry asks for an
allocation of any size at all and Rust aborts on the failed one. The step that
would have caught the mismatch is the one that never runs, which is why
`decode_events(&blob).ok()` could not help — there was no `Err`, only SIGABRT.

Every decode now goes through `Runtime::decode_checked`, which walks the bytes
first with scale-decode's `IgnoreVisitor`. That crate has no `with_capacity`
anywhere, so an impossible length runs out of input on the first item and comes
back as an error. The regression test is the exact four-byte blob, reproduced
against the mainnet fixture before the guard went in — the abort message matched
production byte for byte.

`fill_gap` then turned a short process lifetime into no progress whatsoever: it
accumulated the whole gap and wrote once after the loop, so every interruption
discarded everything read. Each block is four RPC round trips, one a historical
state read; 1,696 blocks against a remote endpoint does not fit in the two
minutes the aborts allowed. And this is not only about the aborts —
`blackbeard-api-cert.path` restarts the service several times a day, so any gap
wider than that interval was already unfillable, logging
`filling a gap in the head stream` on every start with the same `from` and
looking like progress. It flushes every 256 blocks now, and says how many it
recorded.

Both traps are in CLAUDE.md, because neither looks broken from the outside: one
presents as a service that is merely restarting, the other as a catch-up that is
merely slow.

Closes #10
Closes #11

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
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grenadeandClaude Opus 5 1a59b2d398 feat: several endpoints per chain, so one host cannot stop it
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A chain entry held exactly one `rpc_url` and one `ws_url`, and when that host
went down everything for that chain stopped — headers, difficulty, backfill,
state reads, runtime discovery. The endpoints already existed in pairs:
`a2-planck` and `a2-heisenberg` both answer and neither was configured. We were
choosing single points of failure the network went to some trouble to avoid.

`rpc_urls` and `ws_urls` are lists now, and `rpc_url`/`ws_url` still work as a
one-element list — a config naming one endpoint is still a valid config, and
making every deployment rewrite its entry would be this feature breaking the
thing it exists to make reliable.

Endpoints are stuck to rather than balanced across, which is the design and not
laziness: a storage read at an old block hash needs a node that still holds that
block's state, and nodes prune on their own schedules, so alternating would
return a mixture of answers and absences that reads as sparse data rather than a
configuration problem. The cursor is shared across clones so a failover one task
finds is not rediscovered by every other task on the chain.

Failing over on the wrong thing was the trap worth avoiding. A JSON-RPC error is
the node answering — moving on `count exceeds maximum value` would hide a
caller's mistake behind a second node making the same complaint — so a new
`Malformed` variant separates "did not answer" from "answered, with an error".
A pruned block returns `{"result": null}`, a success, and never looks unhealthy.

The WebSocket rotates at reconnect, where the loop already was; racing
subscriptions across endpoints and deduplicating heads buys nothing, since heads
are a liveness signal and ingest fills gaps against `chain_getBlockHash` anyway.

Verified live with a dead endpoint configured first: Planck stayed `full` at its
real height, the RPC logged one `failed over` with from and to, and the head
subscription logged the loss with the endpoint count beside it — because "the
chain is unreachable" and "one of three endpoints is unreachable" are different
operational facts and used to look identical.

Closes #7

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-10 11:17:03 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 7d081c7746 fix: map enumeration asked for more keys than the node allows
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`/heisenberg/reversible` reported 0 pending. The chain has 2.

`state_getKeysPaged` caps `count` at 1,000 and *rejects* rather than truncates:
`PENDING_LIMIT` was 1,600, so every call errored, and `.unwrap_or_default()`
turned the error into an empty page. Nothing looked broken — it looked like a
chain with nothing in flight, which is precisely what mainnet legitimately looks
like. It would have stayed wrong indefinitely.

Caught only because `ReversibleTransfers::NextTransactionId` is a plain counter
reading 5 on Heisenberg, which contradicted the page. Every path tested during
the original work happened to be under the cap — `GENESIS_LIMIT` is 500, and the
`System::Account` check used 3 — so the machinery looked verified.

Three fixes. The clamp lives in `rpc.rs`, because 1,000 is the node's ceiling
rather than a caller's preference. The route no longer swallows the error: a
chain whose runtime lacks the pallet already returns 404, so a failure here is a
real fault and now says so. And the constant is under the cap so the common case
is one request.

Verified against Heisenberg's two real pending transfers, which also exercise
the unknown-deadline path — both were scheduled before the event index reaches,
so they render as pending with no countdown rather than being dropped.

CLAUDE.md gains the general shape: `unwrap_or_default()` on anything that talks
to a node is how a wrong answer comes to look like a right one.

Closes #4

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-10 10:50:14 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 dd8086df0d feat: mark the accounts a chain names, and make genesis unmissable
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Some accounts are special and nothing about the address said so. The treasury
looked like any other empty account, the minting sentinel looked like a wallet,
and the twenty-one accounts endowed at genesis looked like they earned it.

No curated list. The chain names them itself, in three places that are three
different claims and are not flattened into one badge: a runtime constant
(compiled in, immutable for that spec_version), a storage value (assigned, and
changeable), and a balance in block zero (history, and not a role — an account
can be endowed and have no job). Labels derive from the chain's own name, so a
pallet added next year is labelled without an edit. The chip is the claim; the
citation beneath it is the evidence.

Two rules hold it together, both learned the hard way and both now in CLAUDE.md.
An account is told from a hash by registry path, never by shape — after
`normalise` both are `0x` and sixty-four hex characters, so `decode_typed` now
returns the account set the decoder collected while it still knew. And a storage
entry names an account only if its value *is* one: `System::Events` is full of
accounts and names none, and the first cut labelled half the chain's active
addresses `Events`.

Computing all of this walks every plain storage entry and enumerates block zero
— dozens of round trips, fine once and pathological on every account page view —
so it is cached for five minutes. Constants change with the runtime, state
assignments almost never, genesis never.

Block zero gets the endowments, because they have no extrinsic and no event and
are invisible to anyone who has not read the chainspec, and a Genesis link sits
in the nav to give somebody who would never think to look an unmissable way to.
Mainnet started with 5,670,000 QTC across 21 accounts — one holds 5,669,940 and
the other twenty got 3 each — shown beside what each holds today, so what a
founding account did with its stake is one row. When genesis state cannot be
read the page says so rather than showing an empty table: missing data and a
chain that endowed nobody are different claims.

Closes #2

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-10 09:04:45 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 c08d3c4e04 feat: pending reversible transfers, with a countdown
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Scheduled transfers that have not yet landed, counting down to the block they
execute at. `ReversibleTransfers` is the most distinctive thing this chain does
and the observer said nothing about it.

The only view here built from both halves, each authoritative about a different
thing. State — `PendingTransfers` — says what is still pending: a cancelled or
executed transfer is simply gone from the map, and that absence beats replaying
every event since genesis and reconstructing the set, which fails silently. The
event index says when each is due, because `TransactionScheduled` carries
`execute_at` and, contrary to what the issue assumed, the stored struct does
not. A transfer scheduled before the index reaches shows as pending with an
unknown deadline rather than being dropped for half a story.

Enumerating a map needs the prefix and `state_getKeysPaged` — there is no list,
only keys derived from the things in it — and recovering a key from a storage
key needs the hasher to have kept it. `Blake2_128Concat` and `Twox64Concat` do,
`Twox128` and friends do not, so `key_offset` is `None` there rather than a
guess. Verified against a populated map since the target one is empty:
`System::Account` enumerates, its keys decode back to accounts, and the balances
read.

`execute_at` is a `DispatchTime<BlockNumber, Moment>` — an enum, so reading the
wrong arm would show a millisecond timestamp as a height. Time remaining is an
estimate from a block interval that moves; the block count is the fact and the
page says so.

The page reads "nothing is in flight" today, correctly and deliberately: zero of
this pallet's six calls have been dispatched on mainnet. It exists before the
first one because catching the first one is the point.

CLAUDE.md gains the workflow this was the first of — issue first, closed by the
commit, and corrections recorded as comments on the issue rather than as
surprises in a diff.

Closes #1

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-10 08:42:35 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 6b0e02e059 feat: read chain state, decoded against the runtime
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The observer could read headers, events, extrinsics, metadata and difficulty,
and not a single pallet storage item. Answering "which address is this chain's
treasury" meant going outside it and hand-deriving twox128 prefixes, which is a
gap in the tool rather than an answer.

The treasury is the case that shows why. `set_treasury_account` reads *never* on
the call index and `TreasuryAccountUpdated` reads *never* on the event index —
both true, because the address was set at genesis, so no extrinsic ever carried
it and no event ever announced it. It exists only in state. It is
qzjsuLN7Nhu4bjvmUbjSTr2ZTeZ7oRxXpQP9fdv6PcHUCRrVR, and it has never been funded.

`Runtime::storage_key` builds a key entirely from the runtime's own description
— the pallet's storage prefix, the item name, and each key's declared hasher —
because a wrong hasher yields a key that reads as *absent* rather than as an
error, and nothing would catch it. Its test pins two keys against ones read off
the live chain by hand. Keys are SCALE-encoded against the type the entry
declares, so a map on an account, a u32 or a tuple all work without this knowing
which it is.

Absent is not zero, and only the modifier knows which: an `optional` entry
holding nothing means nothing, a `default` entry means the runtime's default,
and the state page marks the latter rather than passing it off as something the
chain wrote. `read_balance` deliberately does not apply the default —
`AccountInfo` zeroes, Substrate reaps empty accounts, and falling back would
turn "does not exist" into "holds nothing", which is the treasury's exact case.

/:chain/state lists all 40 keyless entries decoded, and an account page now
carries a real balance beside the flows it already summed. Those are different
numbers: rewards say what an account was paid, a balance says what it has, and
they differ by every transfer out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-10 08:33:21 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 f9ea292a70 fix: a hashrate estimate now carries its error bar
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The leaderboard credited a miner with "1.55 GH/s" on the strength of one block,
last seen four hours earlier, to three significant figures. Block finding is
Poisson: k blocks carries a relative standard error of 1/√k, so one block is
±100% and it takes twenty-five to reach ±20%. The estimator was unbiased and the
presentation was not honest, which is the half that matters to a reader.

`miner_hashrate` now returns the count's uncertainty with the figure, and the
leaderboard and miner page render it — dimmed below four blocks, where the error
bar is wider than half the value.

Checked first that the arithmetic itself is sound, because the obvious
suspicion was the formula. It is the chain's own: `qpow-math::is_valid_nonce`
accepts when `hash < U512::MAX / difficulty`, `verify_nonce_internal` passes it
what `get_difficulty()` returns, and the hash is uniform — 200,000 samples of
`hash_squeeze_twice` gave 0.4995 of 2^512 against a uniform 0.5, and 12.48%
below 2^509 against 12.5%. Acceptance is 1/difficulty, so expected trials is
difficulty, exactly. The two network estimators — difficulty over tip interval,
and summed work over window span — also agree within 5% on live data.

What that leaves is recorded in CLAUDE.md and is not an observer bug: our three
miners measure 1.66 GH/s (1.39 instantaneous), while the chain credited the same
preimage 5.3 GH/s over 29 blocks. Sampling does not explain 14 sigma.
`miner_cpu_hash_rate` is 0 on all three — every hash is on GPU — and the miner's
CPU path calls `qpow_math::get_nonce_hash` directly while the CUDA kernel is a
separate implementation with its own counter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 19:48:51 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 edce856263 feat: decode extrinsics, and show them
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An event is the chain's account of what happened; an extrinsic is the request
that caused it, and carries what no event does — who signed, what they called,
the nonce and tip, and whether it worked. A history built from events alone
omits every failed attempt and never names a submitter.

The same oracle does both. The metadata's extrinsic type carries four
parameters and the registry names all of them, including
`qp_dilithium_crypto::types::DilithiumSignatureScheme` — the part that looked
like it would need hand-written post-quantum knowledge and does not. The chain
describes its own signature scheme, so `decode_extrinsic` reads a Quantus
transaction without a line of code that knows Quantus exists.

Two facts about this chain's extrinsics, both now in CLAUDE.md. The first byte
is not the version: the top two bits are a type tag, and mainnet carries `0x84`
(signed, v4) and `0x05` (bare, v5) in the same block while the metadata declares
version 4 — check the byte against the metadata and you reject every timestamp
inherent on the chain. And a signature is 5.3 KiB, two orders of magnitude
larger than the call it authorises; it is decoded to find where the call begins
and then discarded, keeping only the scheme's name and the byte count.

Both halves of a block index in one pass, off calls already being made. Whether
a dispatch succeeded comes from the `ExtrinsicSuccess`/`ExtrinsicFailed` events
in that same decoded list — read, used, not stored.

The block page grows a table below the facts: call, signer, arguments, and the
signature's size. The account page merges extrinsics into the history it already
had, ordered by block with the request above the results it caused. `source` is
1 for an extrinsic and 0 for an event so that every part of the sort key
descends, which lets the paging cursor be a plain row comparison rather than a
mixed-direction one Postgres cannot express.

Nested calls are why this had to be generic. A `Utility::batch_all` carries whole
calls in its arguments, so a transfer's recipient can be three levels down — and
because the decoder collects account ids wherever they appear, that batched
transfer shows on the recipient's page tagged *received* even though they signed
nothing. Verified on mainnet 12,616: the batch renders both its transfers with
destinations and values, above the two `Balances::Transfer` events they produced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 18:27:54 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 b006f54cd5 feat: a runtime's own page
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`/quantus/runtime/152` — every pallet, call, event, error, storage entry and
constant the runtime declares, with the constants' values decoded against their
own declared types. Nothing transcribed from a source tree: a source tree says
what the chain should be running, metadata says what it ran.

The set of runtimes is found rather than waited for. Decoding caches one the
moment it needs it, so left alone the cache is "whatever the backfill has walked
past" — days on a chain a million blocks deep. `spec_version` only increases, so
the boundaries are a sorted sequence and bisection finds each in log₂(height)
probes. On Heisenberg that turned up six runtimes and the block each took over
at: v126 from 1, v128 from 132, v131 from 342,813, v136 from 669,129, v144 from
812,055, v148 from 977,079 — two more than the four upgrade boundaries this
approach was originally verified against.

Discovery is its own task, not a poll step. `state_getRuntimeVersion` at an old
block makes the node instantiate the runtime WASM from that block's state:
~4 s against Heisenberg's endpoint versus ~0.25 s at the tip, and a hundred of
those inside a four-second loop stalls difficulty and the summary broadcast for
minutes on every start.

Reading Heisenberg's two ends side by side is the case for the page. Between
v126 and v148 the chain dropped Referenda, ConvictionVoting, Recovery, Assets
and AssetsHolder, added Vesting and Origins, gained `WeightReclaim` and moved
`ChargeTransactionPayment` after the two Quantus-specific extensions. Every one
breaks a decoder written against the other version and none is visible from a
block.

`U256`/`U512` now render as one decimal rather than four or eight little-endian
limbs, identified by registry path exactly as `AccountId32` already was.
Difficulty as `[1189189, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]` describes the bytes correctly and
tells a reader nothing. `ChainSummary` gained `spec_version`/`spec_name` so the
footer can say what the site is decoding against, and link to it.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 17:45:28 +03:00
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The musl release build plus the gate is most of the wall clock, and a commit
that touches only `web/` cannot change a byte of it. A `what changed` step
diffs against the previous head and sets one output; the gate, the build, the
ts-rs drift check and the whole `deploy-api` job hang off it. Not
`on.push.paths`, which would skip the entire workflow — the site still has to
build and ship.

Anything unrecognised counts as Rust. A false positive costs a slow deploy; a
false negative leaves a binary on bob that does not match the commit, and
nothing would report it. Two entries in the path list are less obvious than
they look: `asset/`, because deploy-api ships the systemd units, the firewalld
service and the rendered config from it; and `web/src/api/generated/`, because
the drift gate only runs once `cargo test` has regenerated those files, so a
hand-edit of them must not be able to arrive labelled frontend-only — that is
exactly the change the gate exists to catch.

Checked against this session's five commits: the two pure-UI ones classify as
frontend, the three touching crates or .sqlx classify as Rust, and a
hand-edited generated type classifies as Rust.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 17:23:31 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 eb26a7bb3c feat: decode events against the runtime's own metadata
A header says who mined a block, not what they were paid: the amount is
remaining supply over an emission divisor plus fees, quantized with dust
carried forward, so only the `MinerRewarded` event knows it. Reading it means
decoding SCALE against the registry of the runtime that produced the block, and
this chain's shapes differ from vanilla Substrate because of the post-quantum
signatures.

So the chain describes itself. `state_getMetadata` at a block hash executes
`Metadata_metadata` against the runtime WASM in that block's state; the v14
registry that comes back drives a decoder that knows nothing about mining,
rewards or transfers. `INDEXED_EVENTS` is the only place a name appears —
adding transfers or anything the chain grows next is one line and a query, not
a migration, a struct and a decoder.

Metadata is cached per spec_version, because a node that starts pruning would
otherwise make history undecodable. Blocks are tried against the tip's runtime
first, which costs no extra call; `decode_events` refuses a partial read, so a
block from before an upgrade fails loudly rather than decoding into plausible
nonsense, and that failure is what asks which runtime actually produced it.

`backfill` walks outward from the tip — to the tip first, then toward genesis —
because live indexing alone leaves holes an account page would show: a restart,
an RPC blip, a gap fill that ran before the metadata was cached. Progress is a
cursor rather than `max(height)`, since a block with no indexed event and a
block never read are otherwise the same answer.

Verified on mainnet: block 13160's preimage derives, through the same Poseidon2
the chain runs, to exactly the `miner` field of its own reward event — so the
header author and the payee join with no lookup table.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 16:47:10 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 9eb4bee649 fix: a miner's hashrate is the work it did, not its share of today's network
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Reported against a Grafana panel showing roughly a sixth of what the site did.
Grafana was closer to the truth.

The estimate was `share of blocks in the window × current network hashrate`.
That is only correct while the network is the same size across the whole
window. Measured on mainnet's launch day it was nowhere near: difficulty rose
346-fold inside one 14,400-block window, from 96.4B to 33.4T. A miner that won
its blocks early — when a block cost a three-hundredth of what it costs now —
had that share multiplied by today's network. For this observer's own node the
site reported 25.4 GH/s against an actual 2.5 GH/s.

Difficulty is expected hashes per block by definition, so the difficulty of the
blocks a miner won, summed and divided by the time they spanned, is its
hashrate directly — with no reference to the network's size, and immune to that
size changing underneath, because every block carries the difficulty in force
when it was won. The observer has recorded per-block difficulty correctly since
the parent-state fix, so the data was already there.

`miner_series` had the same flaw and is fixed the same way: summed work per
bucket over the bucket's own duration.

The window's duration is taken from `authored_at`, not `observed_at`. A stretch
this process caught up on carries observation times seconds apart for blocks
minutes apart, and dividing real work by that would invent hashrate — the same
trap the history series was built to avoid.

The headline network figure is unchanged. It divides current difficulty by the
measured interval because it answers a different question: how hard is a block
to win right now, not what did this miner do over the last twelve hours. The
two no longer sum to each other, which is correct and is what the footer now
says.

`standings_rank_by_blocks_then_recency` asserted 400.0 from the old formula;
its third argument is now the window's duration, so it asserts the work-based
figure.

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2026-09-09 15:45:34 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 17ad5b1f74 fix: a restart no longer empties the ticker and the hashrate
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Reported from the live site: the network hashrate occasionally drops to a
fraction of what it was, the live blocks table truncates to a single row and
rebuilds, and the cycle repeats on an unclear schedule.

The schedule is `blackbeard-api-cert.path`. It watches the host certificate and
runs `systemctl restart blackbeard-api` when it rotates — four times in the
last day, on top of every deploy. Nothing was crashing; `NRestarts` is 0.

What a restart lost was two pieces of memory-only state. The block ticker is
built from live blocks and has no other source, so it came back with one row
and refilled over the next minute. The tip samples behind the measured interval
were dropped outright, because the window replay pushes every row with
`at_tip: false` — correct for blocks a previous process caught up on, wrong for
the ones it genuinely watched arrive, which the `at_tip` column has recorded
since `0002`. Without them `measured_interval` returns `None` and the hashrate
falls back to the configured target: at mainnet's ~1.5s against a 12s target,
an eight-fold drop, correctly labelled nominal and wrong.

Warm start now restores both. It runs after the attributions and carried names
because the ticker rows need their display names. Restored tip samples are
capped at ten minutes old — the interval stays arithmetically valid across a
gap, since blocks kept being produced and both terms grow together, but it
stops being *current*, and a sample from an hour ago averaged with one from now
describes the hour rather than the tip.

The underlying restart is left alone: it is a certificate-rotation safeguard
and not mine to remove. It is now simply not visible, which is what it should
always have been — and worth noting the store already recycles pooled
connections hourly for exactly that rotation, so the restart is belt-and-braces
over a case already handled.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 15:21:25 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 a3eb670d11 feat: identify miners by the address they are paid at, not the preimage
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A reward preimage is exact and unrecognisable — no miner knows theirs by sight.
The address is the string they configured and the one their balance shows
against, and the two are related by a derivation the chain performs anyway:
`pallets/mining-rewards` pays `qp_wormhole::derive_wormhole_address`, which is
`qp_poseidon_core::rehash_to_bytes`. Running the same function reproduces the
address exactly, with no RPC and no lookup table.

The derivation takes the preimage and nothing else — no genesis, no chain
parameters — so one preimage is one account on every Quantus chain. The unit
test pins it against a real pair (this observer's own node and the address it
was paid at), so a dependency upgrade that changed the derivation fails the
build rather than quietly relabelling every miner on the site.

Unnamed miners now render as their address. The miner panel shows all three
identifiers, because they answer different questions: the node name is an
inference and may be absent, the address is what the miner recognises, and the
preimage is what the header actually carries and the only one the chain
asserts.

SS58 is written out rather than pulled from `sp-core`, which would bring a
substrate runtime's worth of dependencies to format 36 bytes — the same trade
the readme records for declining subxt. Base58 is hand-rolled because it is
long division and nothing else; blake2 is not, because checksums are not worth
hand-rolling. Both are covered by the address test vector.

`RecentBlock` gains the attribution source: the ticker cannot tell a node name
from an address by looking, since `quanpool-payout-mainnet` and `quantus-radar`
both begin with the letter Quantus addresses do. Two tests that asserted the
old display policy now assert the new one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 15:13:25 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 057937e9cc fix(attribution): measure confidence over votes cast, not the whole window
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Mainnet has shown no node names since launch. Every miner renders as its raw
preimage while Planck, on the same code and the same feed, names twenty.

`votes` holds one slot per block checked and a `None` for every block whose
first reporter the feed could not separate from its second. Those are
abstentions — the feed did not say who led — but confidence divided agreement
by `votes.len()`, counting them as votes against. Measured on the live feed,
mainnet resolves a clean lead on about a quarter of blocks, so the best score
any author could reach was 0.25 against a `MIN_CONFIDENCE` of 0.6. No name
could ever be held, however unanimous the votes that were actually cast. Planck
cleared the bar only because 41-87% of its blocks produced usable votes.

Confidence is now agreement among cast votes, which is what it always meant:
"of the blocks where we could tell who was first, this fraction pointed here".
`MIN_VOTES` guards the other side, so a single vote in an otherwise silent
window is not read as 100% agreement.

`a_held_name_survives_a_confidence_dip` asserted `confidence < 1.0` after five
unresolvable blocks. That assertion encoded the bug. It now asserts the
opposite for abstentions and keeps a real dip — disagreeing votes — as the case
that lowers confidence.

Two false leads are recorded in CLAUDE.md so the next person does not spend the
afternoon on them: the feed delivers a 190-node roster before any live block
traffic, so `ImportedBlock` does not appear for ~40 s after subscribing and a
short probe concludes the feed is dead; and the roster's `AddedNode` entries
carry a height-0 placeholder block with a zero hash, which inflates the
apparent count of nodes claiming to be first if counted as import reports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 13:59:21 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 2cb8f1cf21 config: the node on bob is mainnet now, not Planck
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Mainnet launched today and the node was switched to it. The observer reads
whatever the node is on, so the `[[chains]]` entry pointing at 127.0.0.1:9944
had to follow it — until now the daemon was filing mainnet's blocks under the id
`planck`, with Planck's genesis and PLK still attached to them.

Read from the node, not assumed: `system_chain` "Quantus", genesis
`0xfb5487c0…626fba`, token QTC. `mainnet = true` is asserted here rather than
inferred, which is the field's whole purpose — telemetry also carries a chain
calling itself "Quantus Staging Mainnet", and it is not this one.

The target block time is **12 s, not the 6 s Planck used**.
`TARGET_BLOCK_TIME_MS` is 12_000 in the runtime the node actually runs —
checked at commit b017e642, the `0.11.1-b017e6420aa` its `system_version`
reports, rather than at the tip of the chain repo. It is the denominator for
every hashrate published before twenty tip samples exist, which on a chain
hours old is all of them, so carrying 6.0 across would have put out a mainnet
hashrate at exactly twice its true value — labelled "nominal", not broken.

Planck keeps its 268 telemetry nodes and stays in the site's navigation as
`no_endpoint`: still listed, no longer navigable, because authorship comes from
block headers and we no longer run a node that serves Planck's. That is an
ordinary state here, not an outage.

Nothing about the node itself is touched by this; every command run against it
was a read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-09 12:07:21 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 53dac3717b feat: block explorer routes, addressed by hash
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`#/:chain/:height` opens a block and then rewrites the address to
`#/:chain/:hash`. The redirect is the point, not tidiness: `block` is keyed on
(chain, height) and a reorg overwrites, so a height names a *position* and a
link to one comes to mean a different block the moment the chain forks there. A
hash names one block for good — including after it has lost, which is the only
way an orphan is linkable at all.

`GET /v1/chains/{chain}/blocks/{ref}` takes either spelling; a decimal number
and 32 bytes of hex cannot be confused, so a caller holding a number is not made
to guess which one this API wanted. The same reasoning puts block refs in the
second path segment beside the window: no window name is all digits or 0x plus
64 hex characters.

The answer is assembled from two sources because neither is sufficient, and
they fail at different times:

- The node holds the block and forgets it. Non-canonical bodies go once finality
  passes them (blocks-pruning defaults to archive-canonical, and Planck finalises
  ~100 blocks back), and difficulty is a state read behind a 256-block default.
- The observer holds what the node never had — when the block was seen, whether
  that sighting was at the tip — and what it has since forgotten: the difficulty
  read while the state behind it still existed.

So resolution degrades in a stated order rather than failing. Node first; a
header it cannot serve falls back to `block_displacement`, which is what makes
an orphan describable at all; a node that is away falls back to the recorded
row. `from_node` tells the reader which they are looking at, and every value
neither source has is spelled out in words — "the body is pruned", "this
observer never saw this block" — because a blank on a block page reads as zero.

Verified against the live chain: a tip block carries difficulty, one extrinsic,
a 1.9 s gap and 473 ms of propagation; height 1000000 keeps its body and loses
difficulty to state pruning; genesis has no author digest and does not panic; a
seeded displacement serves as an orphan with the winner linked, and the winner
lists it in `also_seen`.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-08 16:30:41 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 0ce58094e4 feat(data): record what a reorg displaced
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`block` is keyed on (chain, height) so a replacement overwrites rather than
accumulates — a schema keyed on the hash would inflate the losing fork's author
forever. The cost is that the losing block vanishes without a trace, and with it
any record that the height was ever contested. `block_displacement` is that
trace: one row per displacement, holding the whole row that was about to be
overwritten.

It cannot be reconstructed later. `blocks-pruning` defaults to
archive-canonical, which discards non-canonical bodies once finality passes them
— about a hundred blocks behind the tip on Planck — and difficulty is a state
read against a 256-block default. Minutes after a reorg the chain itself can no
longer answer for the block, so what is captured at the moment of the swap is
all there will ever be. That is why the row holds the author and the difficulty
rather than just the hash: the author is the interesting field, it says who lost
the race, and it costs a table that gains a row only when the chain forks.

The capture is a CTE ahead of the upsert, in the same statement. Every
data-modifying CTE sees the same snapshot, so it reads the pre-update row even
though the insert below it is replacing that row in the same breath, and a
failure rolls back both — which two statements without a transaction would not.
A trigger would do the same thing invisibly to anyone reading the query.

Nothing reads the table yet, deliberately. The read shape belongs with the
block route that will use it; what matters now is that the history exists by
the time that lands, which it cannot do retroactively.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-08 15:55:07 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 7e5c2de936 feat: sparkline history under the headline tiles
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Adds `GET /v1/chains/{chain}/series` and a sparkline under network hashrate,
difficulty, block time and miners. Height gets none — it only goes up, and a
straight diagonal reports nothing.

The chart is bucketed by height, not by time: every point is the same number of
blocks, so every point carries equal statistical weight and a stretch nobody
recorded stays the same width on the axis as one that was. A bucket is the
window over fifty, which makes a full window exactly fifty buckets — that is
what lets the rolling miner count at the last point be the same number printed
in the tile above it, rather than a per-bucket count that would sit well below
it. Buckets are anchored to absolute height for the same reason `miner_series`
bins from the epoch: anchored to the tip instead, every boundary slides by one
on every block and the chart shifts under a reader watching it.

Interval comes from `authored_at`, never `observed_at`. A gap fill writes a
whole batch of observation times within the same second, so deltas taken from
it read as a chain producing hundreds of blocks a second — the trap
`RollingWindow`'s `at_tip` flag exists to avoid, which until now lived only in
memory. It is a column as of `0002`, so the distinction survives a restart and
`observed_at` is interpretable at all.

Each point's interval is a three-bucket moving average. The mean of one
bucket's gaps still carries real Poisson error — 72 blocks of a 15 s interval
lands at ±1.8 s — and across fifty points that draws a chain that appears to
change size every few minutes and does not.

Fixes a wrong number found on the way in: `pallet_qpow` retargets in
`on_finalize`, so `QPoWApi_get_difficulty` at the latest state is the
difficulty for the *next* block, not the one just seen. Every stored difficulty
was off by one block — invisible, because a gradual retarget still looks
plausible. It is now asked at `header.parent_hash`, the same call the miner
made when it built the block. A node that has pruned that state gets `None`
rather than the current value: substituting it is exactly how a gap fill would
stamp today's difficulty across a stretch of old heights. The CLI backfill had
the same bug at greater scale, copying one reading across an entire range.

Unknowns are drawn as breaks in the line, never interpolated: an outage, a
difficulty a pruned node cannot supply, a point without a full window of
authors behind it. A chart that guesses across what was never recorded is the
same class of lie as a hashrate divided by a sync speed, and just as hard to
catch afterwards.

Read against the dataviz skill first, per CLAUDE.md. Single series, one hue;
emphasis on the newest point is `--data-bright`, a lighter step of the same
bronze, because the usual "current period in the accent" convention is the one
change that would break this palette. The hover readout borrows each tile's
note line — five floating tooltips across a row of 180px tiles is a pile, not a
hover layer — and the same readout is on keyboard focus and in the aria-label,
since the line does not start at zero and its height is not a quantity anyone
should be estimating.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5
2026-09-08 14:39:27 +03:00
grenadeandClaude Opus 5 b552b08b10 docs: record the mesh-bind, hairpin and runner-label gotchas
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Each of these failed a CI run this session and none of them looks like what it
is: a loopback health probe refused by a healthy daemon, a proxy that cannot
resolve its own public name, and 'cargo: command not found' on a node runner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MSDYiibCtELsrjQq6KXnoi
2026-09-04 13:56:42 +03:00