After the 4 Oct 2026 stall (no block stored from 11:57 to 13:15 UTC, then 7,022
blocks in two minutes). Notifications only enqueue; a drain loop handles them
in bounded batches. Block flush, colour marking and certificate work each run
on their own timer and never wait on one another. Mergesets come from the
notification's verbose data (bounded cache); getBlock only on a miss, four at
a time. live_state gains observer_lag_s and queue_depth; the API serves them;
the page shows "observer N s behind" past 30 s instead of waiting for the
first block. blocks_per_minute and blocks_60s are bucketed by the block's own
timestamp and reseeded from the table on start, so a catch-up fills past
minutes instead of painting a spike. If no blockAdded arrives for 60 s while
the node's block_count advances, the observer resubscribes; after two failed
attempts it exits 2 and tools/observer/run.sh restarts it.
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Observer: additive live_blocks.color (pending by default). Every chain block's
mergeset marks its blues blue and its reds red, from the notification's verbose
data or getBlock for chain blocks learned via virtualChainChanged; a reorg puts
the removed chain blocks' mergesets back to pending. API serves color. Page:
blue side blocks filled in the miner's hue at 70% with the ring, pending the
faint outline, red a dark outline with a strike; tooltip and legend name the
state.
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site/verify/core.js recomputes every header hash (keyed BLAKE2b, the
node's field order), checks the parent links from the previous locked
checkpoint, hashes each voter's G1 key to its vote_key_hash, verifies the
BLS aggregate over "igneum-vote-v1/" || chain_id || 0 || index_le64 ||
checkpoint under the vote tag with the bitmap's keys, and applies Q3
(2/3 of active, 17/30 of total). verify.js drives it from /api/checkpoint
with @noble/hashes 2.4.0 and @noble/curves 2.4.0 pinned from jsdelivr and
fills the homepage card; the badge says LIVE only after a pass in the tab.
site/api/checkpoint.mjs ships the data: certificate bytes, voter table
with public keys, header chain. tools/observer stores every certificate a
block carries (new table live_certificates, voter table read at the lock,
selected-chain headers back to the previous lock, one-off backfill of the
newest lock on start) and keeps header nonces exact; the FinalityLock
write no longer fails on a missing votes_seen.
Tested on the igneum-devnet-7 test network: checkpoint 95 verifies in
Chrome in 103 ms; a flipped signature bit, a dropped voter, an altered key,
an altered header and a removed header all fail with the reason named.
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- docs/fork-divergence.md: "Finality v2" table (every file, risk, merge note), decisions
- docs/spec/03-finality.md: section 3.10 implementation notes, clause by clause
- docs/bench-log.md: test-network results (72 of 72 steady locks, median 0.80 s; equivocation
strip; partition: 0 locks at 39.6% of total with the floor binding, heal in 30 s), follower
- tools/observer: live_checkpoints table, FinalityLock subscription, "checkpoint N locked" events
- site: /api/live adds checkpoints and locked/final flags; /live draws the lock ring and final line
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Records the 3 Oct 2026 rename pass in vendor/igneum-node (binary, process
name, user agent, data and log paths, env vars, address prefixes, DNS
seeders, default build set) and what stays Kaspa-named internally. The
Windows miner guide and the observer README now start igneumd.
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tools/observer: Node 22 observer on the node's wRPC JSON port (blockAdded and
virtualChainChanged subscriptions, 2 s state ticks) writing live_blocks,
live_state and live_events to Neon, miner address decoded from the coinbase
payload, events for new or quiet miners, peers and difficulty steps.
site/api/live.mjs: three indexed queries, max-age=1.
site/live.html: status strip, DAG stream with real parent edges and a lane per
miner, miners table, events feed, blocks-per-minute sparkline, OFFLINE freeze.
The homepage live path and the /api/live cache header went in with 408c968.
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