Cardano Leios Testnet dey Prepare enter Water Phase as SPO Rewards dey Wait Approval

Input Output don outline the next stage of Ouroboros Leios testing for the Musashi Dojo public testnet. The July Leios Monthly Review talk about preparation for the Water phase, BLS key registration, Endorser Block announcements and one proposed reward program for stake pool operators wey dey participate.

The Water phase go test protocol configurations and node behavior under different network conditions. The results go help determine the initial Leios parameters for future Cardano mainnet deployment.

Musashi Dojo dey Move Toward the Leios Water Phase

Musashi Dojo na public Cardano testnet wey Input Output dey operate. Independent stake pool operators dey run Leios-enabled block producers and dey participate for consensus, while developers fit test DApps, wallets, indexers and other infrastructure before the protocol reach mainnet.

Leios extend Ouroboros Praos by pairing Cardano’s regular Ranking Blocks with bigger Endorser Blocks wey dey reference extra transactions. One stake-based committee dey validate each Endorser Block, and the certificate wey come from am fit later enter the Praos chain.

The first Earth phase focus on to establish the testnet, synchronize nodes, register pools and bring multiple node implementations enter the testing environment.

Water go shift the program enter systematic testing of timing parameters, Endorser Block sizes, mempool behavior, transaction submission and sustained network load. Dem go compare different configurations to identify settings wey fit operate reliably across distributed infrastructure.

The Musashi Dojo program dey target initial throughput capacity increase between five and twenty times. That range still be program objective wey dem go evaluate through implementation work, parameter selection and testnet measurements.

Leios never reach release candidate status, and no mainnet hard fork date don confirm.

BLS Registration dey Connect SPOs to Leios Voting

The Cardano ledger and CLI don now support the registration process for the BLS keys wey Leios voting require.

Stake pool operators fit generate BLS signing and verification keys, then include the public key and proof of possession for pool registration certificate. The development team still dey prepare process wey go allow existing pools to add BLS key without to do entirely new registration.

Under the CIP-164 specification, Leios dey use committee wey dem derive from Cardano’s active stake distribution. Committee members dey vote on Endorser Blocks, and their BLS signatures dey aggregate into compact certificate wey dem fit include for later Ranking Block.

Registered BLS keys fit already store inside the ledger state, but Musashi Dojo never dey use dem yet for active committee participation. Subsequent node release go connect the registered keys with committee membership and live voting.

The prototype don also add Endorser Block announcements. These messages dey connect eligible block-production opportunity with specific Endorser Block and dey spread that information across the network before voting start.

The current implementation fit create and propagate the announcements. Additional rules on when nodes go retrieve and vote on Endorser Block go follow further measurements of announcement diffusion.

SPO Incentive Plan dey Wait Final Approval

Input Output dey prepare incentive program for stake pool operators wey dey run infrastructure for Musashi Dojo. The plan don get preliminary approval by the time of the July review but e still dey wait final internal decision.

The proposed registration process go use verification code wey dem publish through testnet pool metadata to confirm say operator dey control the registered pool.

Participation fit require operators to produce blocks, vote on Endorser Blocks and share operational data with the development team. Dem fit also ask operators to run supplied diagnostic scripts so the team fit compare node behavior across different hardware, network conditions and software environments.

The proposed program include identity verification and regulatory eligibility requirements. Rewards go dey distributed monthly or every two months in mainnet ADA, although payment amounts and final participation rules never publish.

Final approval go add structured mechanism to retain operators and collect comparable operational data during the Water phase. Independent of that decision, the next planned steps na to activate BLS-backed committee participation and begin testing Leios parameter combinations across distributed infrastructure. Those changes go move Musashi Dojo from to prove say nodes fit join the network to to measure which configurations fit support future mainnet release candidate.