Welcome to this week’s Weekly Development Report, highlighting continued efforts in simplification, consistency, and system reliability across the ecosystem. The ARK Scan team improved real-time data handling across the homepage and Mainsail pages by extending WebSocket updates and removing unnecessary polling. The ARK SDKs and Documentation team continued bringing the Go Crypto package toward feature parity with the other SDKs, improving consistency across the ecosystem. Meanwhile, the Mainsail team strengthened consensus reliability by persisting validator signing positions and improving recovery from refused signatures, while also reducing memory usage in P2P statistics through more efficient data tracking.
Development Activity Summary (August 07 – August 14, 2026)
Below is a breakdown of the total number of merged commits and contributing authors by project, highlighting development activity from August 07, 2026, to August 14, 2026.
| Project | Commits | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| ARK Connect | 0 | 0 |
| ARK Scan | 6 | 1 |
| ARK SDKs & Docs | 16 | 1 |
| ARK Vault | 0 | 0 |
| Mainsail | 34 | 1 |
In total, 56 commits were merged across all projects this week. As always, commit counts fluctuate with sprint focus and task complexity.
ARK Scan Weekly Report
This week focused on improving real-time updates across the homepage and Mainsail pages. The homepage tabs now automatically refresh using the same WebSocket events as the dedicated Blocks and Transactions pages, providing a more consistent update experience. We also fixed an issue where tabbed pages using WebSockets were still polling for data unnecessarily, reducing redundant requests and keeping the update flow simpler.
Next week we’ll continue improving real-time updates and performance, while addressing any issues identified during testing.
ARK SDKs & Documentation Site Weekly Report
This week focused on bringing the Go Crypto package closer to feature parity with the other SDKs. We added the missing functionality that was already available in the sibling SDK packages, making the Go Crypto package more consistent across the SDK ecosystem.
Next week we’ll continue improving the SDK packages, address any remaining gaps in functionality, and update the documentation as new features and changes are introduced.
Mainsail Weekly Report
This week focused on improving consensus reliability and reducing memory usage in P2P statistics. Validator signing positions are now persisted to disk before signatures are released, preventing validators from double-signing after a crash or restart. Consensus also skips refused signatures and continues with the next round. P2P round statistics were optimized to retain less data by tracking only recognized routes, aggregating requests per round, and limiting the number of tracked peers.
Next week we’ll continue improving consensus and P2P, with a focus on reliability, performance, and addressing any issues identified during testing.
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