Veld 3.2.1

Veld Node 3.2.1 adds integrated Windows pool mining, improves mining and window recovery, and prepares the coordinated upgrade at block 9,500. Update before that height. Solo mining remains available.

• Pool mode: configurable HTTPS endpoint, your own payout address, CPU controls, private account access, rewards and payment history.
• Fixes pool scrolling artifacts, restores an already running/minimized window, and improves retry behavior during synchronization and template transitions.
• Combines eligible earnings across accounts at the same payout address while preserving individual entitlements and payment recovery records.
• At block 9,500: opt-in SHA-384 key destinations with ML-DSA-65 signatures; removal of the network-wide ordinary-stake prerequisite for validator registration; a flat 0.30% AMM swap fee in either direction.
• The individual 10,000 VELD validator bond, 1,000 VELD co-mining eligibility, and separate governance, finality and custody gates remain unchanged.

Updating: enable Automatic updates in Settings and keep Veld Node open, or use the signed update controls. The original signed 3.2.0 client was tested through automatic public-feed discovery, verification, installation and mainnet solo-mining resume with the same payout identity and 15 workers, without another passphrase. Selected testers already on a different signed 3.2.1 candidate must install the final full package manually; equal-version manifest conflicts are intentionally refused. Preserve wallets, data, account records and signing journals.

Verification: check the signed manifest, ZIP checksum and detached signatures. GUI ZIP SHA-256: 5593cf53016edd9cff16e86639aed2ba567769d9a11861267ff80e58d22b7c7c.

The production binaries were built from commit 1c693db24de71e71bc45b26958da03340d847f5c, tree 9fb5c2ea6824a661c5d36cee2eae8ddbea798426. The attached Veld-3.2.1-source.tar.gz matches that build tree. The release tag also includes later web/documentation corrections, which do not modify those binaries. Build and release identities are not interchangeable.

Pool staking, genuine near-miss inclusion, lottery winnings, shared staking yield and real recipient payments passed isolated test-chain exercises under both rule profiles. The public pool has mined a verified mainnet block; its latest normal-maturity payout observation and broader qualification continue. Pool co-mining is not operator-funded on mainnet yet. This release is not a comprehensive security clearance or btcVELD custody activation. See docs/release-3.2.1-qualification.md for scope and retained limitations.