Welcome to this week’s Behind the Code Technical Update, where we provide detailed insights into the continuous development happening across the Elastos ecosystem. Each Tuesday, our “Behind the Code” series gives you a transparent look at the ongoing improvements and milestones achieved by our dedicated development teams.
Whether you’re a developer, creator, investor, or simply curious about the technology powering Elastos, these updates showcase how we’re building the future of a truly decentralized Smartweb that prioritizes user sovereignty and Bitcoin-level security.
This Week’s Major Developments
This week delivered solid progress across the Elastos ecosystem, with major advances in formal verification, smart contract security, and media streaming technology. The BeL2-NBW team achieved a critical milestone by mastering the Certora formal verification tool, providing mathematical proof of smart contract security. They successfully discovered and fixed multiple contract vulnerabilities through verification processes.
Meanwhile, Elacity reached significant milestones in decentralized media infrastructure. The team completed automatic bitrate selection (ABR) development with BOLA compliance, began architectural work on decentralized DRM systems using Lit Protocol, and made substantial progress on smart account bundling for improved user experience. Their front-end overhaul increased SEO coverage from 3/10 to 10/10, positioning Elacity as “Web3’s Revenue Rail” while maintaining strict technical standards.
Here are the latest details of Elastos updates:
BeL2-NBW
Formal Verification Breakthrough
Certora Tool Mastery: Successfully learned and applied the Certora formal verification tool, completing specification writing for the ConfigManager module. The team discovered and fixed multiple potential contract issues, including feeRate setting limits that cannot exceed 10000.
Security Parameter Configuration: Determined reasonable ranges for arbitrator configuration contract time parameters:
- ARBITRATION_TIMEOUT: 30 minutes to 48 hours
- ARBITRATION_FROZEN_PERIOD: 30 minutes to 24 hours
- DAPP_BTC_FEE_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT: 30 minutes to 24 hours
Audit Preparation: Organized zero-knowledge proof repositories, completed handover work, and tagged audit contract scope with appropriate labels. Added fee collection verification logic to arbitrator signing services.
Production Environment Readiness
Version Release Preparation: Compiled BTCD arbitrator v0.0.1 and BTCD issuer v0.0.1 multi-platform executables. Prepared download links, startup scripts, and Docker images for official deployment.
Automated Service Updates: Updated arbitrator and issuer signing service deployment scripts, added fee verification logic checks, and completed deployment testing preparation.
Lending System Testing: Modified frontend judgment conditions for 65% collateral ratio usage, tested collateral ratio discount mechanisms based on staked assets, and verified system performance under various timeout scenarios.
Infrastructure Management
Performance Resolution: Resolved ESC browser disk IO wait time issues by adding cloud disk IO number limits and adjusting system parameters. Cleaned up invalid cloud resources including Elastic IPs, Volumes, and Security Groups.
Elastos DAO Election Support: Monitored mainchain operation after CR election, completed support setup for new Elastos DAO committee member nodes, and wrote monitoring scripts for continuous status tracking.
Frontend Application Improvements
Complete Internationalization: Implemented translation mechanisms and complete Simplified Chinese translation for lending applications and arbitrator portal, removing language barriers for broader user adoption.
Chain Switching Mechanism: Implemented chain switching mechanism in arbitrator portal preparing for seamless multi-chain support.
User Experience Fixes: Fixed crashes when refreshing after staking contract creation, resolved loading button spinner visibility issues, and added explanatory messages for ELA and BTC deposit amounts.
Elacity
Smart Media Processing Advances
Automatic Bitrate Selection (ABR): Reached QA-ready status with validated BOLA compliance, finalized unit and integration tests, and tested edge cases including 4K failures. The system defaults to manual bitrate selection as fallback, ensuring playback integrity.
Transcoding Infrastructure: Benchmarked AV1 encoding with optimized ffmpeg parameters, integrated VMAF (Netflix’s perceptual quality model) for quality scoring, and initiated automated benchmarking pipelines to validate transcoded asset quality.
Quality Scoring Foundation: Built infrastructure for Phase 2 of the World Computer, where processing will be distributed across DePIN worker capsules earning rewards based on verified output quality.
Smart Account Bundling Progress
Session Key Implementation: Achieved milestone functionality with successful test deployments on Arbitrum Sepolia. Confirmed frontend and backend compatibility for bundling multiple smart contract operations into single transactions.
Gas Efficiency Improvements: Made Elacity interactions more seamless and gas-efficient while preserving non-custodial integrity for users through smart account bundling technology.
Decentralized DRM Architecture
Trustless License Delivery: Began architectural transition from centralized keystore to decentralized key validation and delivery. Validated session-based license logic for smart contracts and mapped path toward Lit Protocol integration.
Threshold Cryptography: Started internal coordination to separate playback authorization from API bottlenecks, making Elacity’s DRM system fully unstoppable where every license is issued, validated, and decrypted by the network.
Universal Login Integration
Particle UniversalX SDK: Completed initial setup and exploration of Particle’s universal login SDK. Implementation planning began to integrate session-based authentication into Elacity’s login flows.
Walletless UX Planning: Positioned for supporting walletless, signature-based UX for any blockchain with USD markets, addressing critical user onboarding friction points.
Front-End Engineering Excellence
SEO and Analytics Overhaul: Increased SEO coverage from 3/10 to 10/10 across 36/43 files. Implemented GA4 tracking, sitemap automation, and structured data injection, positioning Elacity as “Web3’s Revenue Rail.”
UI System Redesign: Delivered responsive filter redesign, category logic for channels vs collections, new horizontal filters, All/Owned toggles, and updated card systems with lightweight hover states.
VIP Subscription Integration: Integrated actual NFTs as proof of access with explorer links, verification badges, and error resilience built into subscription modal systems.
Technical Foundation: Built reusable components, bundle size optimizations, and maintained zero new dependencies with strict TypeScript compliance throughout the codebase.
What’s Next
BeL2/NBW
Formal Verification Expansion: Continue deep learning of Certora tools and complete formal verification specifications for other arbitrator protocol modules while conducting comprehensive contract security checks.
Production Deployment: Coordinate preparation for production environment version deployment, complete BTCD launch preparations on ESC, and conduct comprehensive production environment testing.
PGP Chain Integration: Complete implementation and testing of BPoS node participation in PGP chain block production while continuing related functionality development.
Elacity
System Integration: Continue front-end consolidation, finalize universal login proof-of-concept, and expand key management architecture for fully decentralized operations.
DePIN Infrastructure: Prepare the path for self-hosted encoding DePIN workers and complete architectural transition to decentralized DRM systems.
User Experience: Complete mobile UX refinements, finalize VIP subscription system integration, and prepare comprehensive user onboarding flows.
Join Elastos Today
The Elastos ecosystem continues to demonstrate remarkable progress toward our vision of a user-sovereign Smartweb. This week’s achievements in formal verification, smart contract security, and decentralized media infrastructure bring us significantly closer to providing users with secure, reliable decentralized services that put true ownership back in their hands.
By combining Bitcoin’s security with decentralized identity and peer-to-peer networks, we’re building a Smartweb where users genuinely own their data, identity, and digital assets. Whether you’re a developer looking to build on our comprehensive infrastructure, a content creator seeking to monetize your work without intermediaries, or simply a user who values privacy and control over your digital life, Elastos provides the tools and technology to make this vision reality.
We invite you to explore these new features, provide feedback, and join us in building the foundation for a more equitable digital future. Stay tuned for next week’s technical update as we continue empowering users and changing the way we interact online.
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