v0.1.0-beta

What's Changed

• feat: complete MiniChain core implementation with PoW, Ed25519, and smart contract engine by @aniket866 in #7
• Modular Core Implementation & Smart Contracts and contract tests by @aniket866 in #6
• Add CodeRabbit configuration file (.coderabbit.yaml) by @anshulchikhale30-p in #14
• refactor: flatten directory structure to single minichain package by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #19
• Deleted the older coderabbit.yml file to prevent duplicate configuration conflicts by @aniket866 in #45
• Feature/testnet demo by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #46
• feat: step1 protocol hardening improvements by @arunabha003 in #58
• refactor: simplify mempool to sorted queue and fix tx removal semantics by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #60
• Fix: persistence.py function calls in main by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #61
• Add automated merge conflict labeling workflow by @dhruvi-16-me in #49
• Add minimal test suite for transaction signing and verification by @shrilakshmikakati in #55
• fix: address CodeRabbit comments for pr #46 by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #54
• Refactor for conceptual minimality in validation and deserialization flows by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #62
• fix: fund wallet before peer connect by @arunabha003 in #71
• Fix P2P message validation and host parameter by @quickquickcode in #64
• minimization in mempool by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #70
• add logo by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #86
• Update blogs by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #78
• feat: add sqlite-backed chain persistence by @arunabha003 in #82
• [OPTIMIZE] Implement lazy hashing cache for Transaction IDs by @sanaica in #75
• feat: implement external genesis configuration support by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #87
• feat: implement Merkle Patricia Trie for state verification by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #88
• [FEATURE]: Implement Canonical Serialization for Blocks and Transactions by @sanaica in #67
• Feat/ transaction receipts by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #89
• Feat/smart contracts by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #92
• Feat/fee handling by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #91
• Readme update by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #99
• Feat/fork choice by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #100
• feat: implement JSON-RPC 2.0 server using aiohttp by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #98
• Feat/contract transfers by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #101
• Feat/libp2p by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #102
• minichain ascii art by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #105
• feat: implemented (EMA) difficulty adjustment by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #104
• Feat/peer blacklisting by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #106
• Feat/difficulty by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #110
• Feat/libp2p by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #111
• feat: implement P2P interception layer for peer misbehavior detection by @g-k-s-03 in #107
• Feat/peer blacklisting by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #113
• remove code smells, duplicate codex and refactor by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #116
• feat: implement basic keystore persistence and CLI wallet commands by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #114
• feat: Add Ethereum-style timestamp validation and PoW hash check by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #117
• chore: ci setup for pytests by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #118
• update badge by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #125
• update badge size by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #126
• fix the badge by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #127
• add example contract by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #130
• Feat/state gas metering by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #132
• refactor: change PoW difficulty to numeric target hash threshold by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #133
• feat: Implement StateJournal and in-memory snapshots for state rollback by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #134
• Feat/release automation by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #137
• feat: add Docker image build/push to the release workflow by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #138
• Docs/contributing maintainers agents by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #136
• ci: fix coverage parser format and resolve fork permission errors by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #146
• Fix/p2p discovery by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #144
• fix: make P2P networking work, and let a node mine on its own by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #143
• fix: pin libp2p/multiaddr and harden CI to stop main from breaking by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #147
• fix: RPC server unreachable from outside Docker container by @g-k-s-03 in #145
• test: push overall coverage from 68% to 81% by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #148
• Fix/ci broken on main by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #149
• fix: stop resource-limit clamp from killing CI, restore coverage comments/badge by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #151
• fix: close contract sandbox escape via str.format() attribute traversal by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #152
• chore: add security-review and security-remediation skills by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #153
• docs: publish security review and remediation for contract sandbox escape by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #154
• fix: stop unhandled handler exceptions from killing the p2p reader task by @SIDDHANTCOOKIE in #155

New Contributors

• @aniket866 made their first contribution in #7
• @anshulchikhale30-p made their first contribution in #14
• @arunabha003 made their first contribution in #58
• @dhruvi-16-me made their first contribution in #49
• @shrilakshmikakati made their first contribution in #55
• @quickquickcode made their first contribution in #64
• @sanaica made their first contribution in #75
• @g-k-s-03 made their first contribution in #107

Full Changelog: https://github.com/StabilityNexus/MiniChain/commits/v0.1.0-beta