QF Network – AlphaDrop #4

Your monthly update on the QF Network journey toward mainnet.

Hello builders, researchers, and early believers.
October was about solving the speed-vs-security paradox at the protocol layer. Not choosing between them. Solving both.

Let’s dive in.

SPIN Consensus Progress

Fast blocks with 2 layers of security.

Last month, we shipped the ability to read secure finality data.
This month, we delivered the rest of the flow:

✔ Relayer service implemented
Forwards finality proofs from the fastchain to the anchor chain

✔ Finality verification path completed
The anchor chain’s checkpoint is now passed back to the fastchain enforcing secure finality

Your transactions finalize in a few seconds with the same cryptographic guarantees as the anchor chain maintaining 100ms inclusion pace. That’s 120x faster than Ethereum L1, without sacrificing security assumptions. Fast and trustless — finally.

Core Infrastructure Upgrades

Infrastructure That Doesn’t Get in Your Way

Leonardo joined from Parity to keep this momentum going. His job: make sure infrastructure is invisible because it just works.

Building on unstable infrastructure is like coding on a laptop that crashes every hour. Unacceptable.

This month we hardened the stack:

• Migrated to a provider with better uptime and support guarantees, redundancy added (multiple servers are listening for requests), RPCs are now provisioned automatically from code

• Portal uptime: Now consistently available when you need to deploy

• RPC reliability: Fewer timeouts, faster responses

• Testnet telemetry: Real-time node visibility

Smart Contracts and Developer Portal

Developer Portal: decreased priority

We made a call: perfect the protocol layer before scaling the developer experience.

Smart contract tooling and portal features are on hold while the team focuses on SPIN finality and core infrastructure. Once those foundations are unshakeable, we’ll move fast on apps, templates, and tooling.

Better to delay surface-level features than ship a protocol that needs fundamental rework later.

Mainnet Launch Preparation

Mainnet Milestone 1: Spec Complete

First mainnet milestone is fully scoped:

• Architecture locked

• Requirements documented

• Review cycle in progress

Once approved, we start building. This marks the transition from research mode to execution mode. From “what should we build?” to “here’s how we’re building it.”

The distance between testnet and mainnet just became smaller and measurable.

Coming Soon: New Tool for the Community

We’re shipping a new developer tool next month.

It solves a friction point we kept hearing about from early builders. Intuitive, open to everyone, no waitlist, no gating. You’ll see why we prioritized it when you use it.

Looking Ahead

Next month expect:
• Hardening the secure finality
• More RPC stability improvements
• Early steps into the mainnet developer experience
• First reveal of the new tool

Momentum is growing.

Keep building. We’ll keep clearing the path.

QF

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