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 marked significant progress in preparing production-ready systems across the Elastos ecosystem. The BeL2–NBW team achieved critical milestones in stablecoin system deployment readiness, mining pool collaboration schemes, and formal verification capabilities. Their comprehensive work on staking reward mechanisms and system rebranding brings BTCD closer to official launch.
Meanwhile, Elacity reached major breakthroughs in media infrastructure and decentralized rights management. The team completed transcoding optimization with AV1 encoding, deployed v3.1.2 with enhanced playback performance, and made substantial progress toward fully decentralized DRM systems using threshold cryptography. Their work on smart accounts and universal login systems positions Elacity for mainstream user adoption.
Here are the latest details of Elastos updates:
BeL2-NBW
Stablecoin System Production Readiness
Staking Voting Reward Scheme: Completed comprehensive design for users to stake and vote for DPOS nodes while receiving additional rewards. The team formulated miner mining reward collection mechanisms and established clear fee distribution: Elastos golden signature address receives 50%, miners 40%, and cards 10%. This creates a sustainable ecosystem value distribution model.
System Rebranding Completion: Successfully transitioned the entire system from NBW to BTCD branding, including contracts, frontend applications, subgraphs, and deployment scripts. Updated all APIs, pages, and identifiers to reflect the new BTCD identity in preparation for official release.
Contract Security and Deployment: Fixed issuer contract display issues for claimable interest, added frontend interfaces for interest retrieval, and modified configManager to enforce 100-day limits on arbitrator tasks. Prepared deployment scripts and coordinated production environment version readiness.
Mining Pool Collaboration and Joint Mining
Anti-Malicious Security Measures: Developed precompiled contract signature verification mechanisms to prevent malicious registration and reward address tampering. Created comprehensive identity verification and access control systems for mining operations.
Formal Verification Advancement
Security Capability Building: Studied formal verification cases from established protocols including Compound, Uniswap, and Aave. Mastered Spec design patterns and vulnerability discovery methods that traditional testing struggles to capture, providing mathematical proof of contract security.
Practical Application Research: Researched how formal verification discovers subtle edge case vulnerabilities in real projects, establishing deeper technical foundations for subsequent contract security verification work.
Infrastructure and Frontend Improvements
Node Maintenance: Resolved multiple mainchain node synchronization issues affecting nodes 030, 034, 037, and 031. Optimized cloud server resource configurations based on usage patterns, reducing operational expenses while maintaining performance.
User Experience Enhancements: Added arbitrator availability detection before order creation, preventing users from creating unexecutable orders. Updated UI design with left navigation menus, new BTCD logo colors, and comprehensive Chinese translation support. Fixed staking contract deadline displays and unstaking issues in arbiter portal applications.
Elacity
Smart Media Processing Excellence
Transcoding Pipeline Revolution: Reached 80%+ completion of new transcoding bitrate optimization using AV1 encoding with optimized ffmpeg parameters. Deployed automated benchmarking system using Netflix’s VMAF quality assurance model, ensuring consistent delivery of optimized, DRM-ready transcoded assets.
Production Deployment Success: Deployed Elacity v3.1.2 with enhanced playback performance including audio/video sync stability improvements, native token royalty offer fixes, and metadata corrections throughout the user interface. The system now delivers production-verified, benchmarked media processing.
Automatic Bitrate Selection Completion: Completed unit tests and 4K debugging for ABR functionality, transitioning from playback-based bitrate inference to server-side control. The system provides stable fallback mechanisms while maintaining playback integrity across all resolution formats.
Decentralized DRM Architecture Progress
Trustless License Systems: Completed technical comparison between current Elacity licensing flow and Lit Protocol’s threshold key management model. Built architecture for proof-of-concept where access tokens and license issuance operate without centralized Elacity servers.
Condition-Based Decryption Modeling: Developed internal models for decentralized condition-based decryption supporting token possession verification, time-bound playback restrictions, and programmable license revocation. This eliminates the final centralized component in the dDRM pipeline.
Protocol-Level Rights Management: Advanced work toward removing all centralized license acquisition logic, building toward trustless, serverless license flows that operate entirely through threshold cryptography and smart contract verification.
Universal Identity and Smart Accounts
Session Key Functionality: Delivered working session key implementation enabling account abstraction and batched smart contract transactions. Successfully deployed to Arbitrum Sepolia with integrated frontend and backend flows supporting seamless bundling of mint, license, and transfer operations.
Particle Network Universal Login: Completed SDK installation and documentation review for Particle Network’s UniversalX SDK. Mapped current blockers and requirements for Elacity’s login flow adaptation, positioning for walletless identity management.
Smart Account Bundling: Achieved milestone functionality where session keys are signed and validated against access rights, enabling gas-efficient multi-operation transactions while preserving non-custodial user control.
What’s Next
BeL2-NBW
Production Launch Preparation: Complete final BTCD deployment preparations on ESC chain, conduct comprehensive production environment testing, and coordinate official stablecoin system launch with full monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
Mining Pool Expansion: Continue joint mining scheme development, advance PGP chain support and testing, and research plasma chain privacy protection modes for enhanced user security.
Contract Security Verification: Apply formal verification tools for comprehensive security audits across all protocol modules, ensuring mathematical proof of system safety before production deployment.
Elacity
Decentralized Infrastructure Completion: Finalize migration to fully decentralized DRM systems using Lit Protocol threshold cryptography, complete universal login proof-of-concept, and prepare self-hosted encoding DePIN worker architecture.
User Experience Finalization: Complete mobile UX refinements, finalize smart account bundling for mainstream adoption, and prepare comprehensive onboarding flows supporting walletless user experiences.
World Computer Foundation: Establish technical foundation where rights, playback, payments, and ownership operate entirely onchain, with processing distributed across DePIN worker capsules earning rewards based on verified output quality.
Join Elastos Today
The Elastos ecosystem continues demonstrating remarkable progress toward our vision of a user-sovereign Smartweb. This week’s achievements in production readiness, formal verification, and decentralized media infrastructure bring us significantly closer to providing users with secure, reliable decentralized services that restore true ownership.
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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