Weekly Report: 2026-02-06

We met with the ouroboros-consensus team and started drafting a plan to merge our work.

• WIP Migrate commits to upstream HEAD Consensus fork PR # 44.

Work on milestone 3.

• Issue Conway blocks Consensus fork PR #37.
• Add COMPLETE annotation for BlockTree pattern Consensus fork PR #38.
• Decided to disable crypto checks on VRF keys moving forward as a strategy to preserve the flexibility of the existing chain generators, allowing to populate slots more freely. Other strategies where considered, such as tweaking protocol parameters (limited benefit) or defining a standard TestBlock that other nodes would need to implement in order to test against our harness (out of scope for the project).

Work on milestone 4.

• WIP Add test case serialization Consensus fork PR #31.
• Implement conformance test suite type Consensus fork PR #28.
• WIP Move conformance tests into test suites Consensus fork PR #39.