April 2026 Monthly Summary for Near-One/mpc: Delivered key features and stability improvements with measurable business value, including performance gains from data-structure optimization, an upgraded core runtime, and robust release automation that shortens time to release while reducing risk. Major features delivered include Keyshare data storage optimization using BTreeMap, dependency upgrade to nearcore 2.11, launcher support for arbitrary OCI registries, and enhanced CI/release workflows. Notable bug fixes address CI reliability (e2e test cache overwrites and rust-tee launcher OOM) and cache management. The month also emphasized standardization across testing and contract tooling, with migrations updates post-3.9.0/3.9.1 and unified test-utils and build steps across modules. Overall, these efforts improved runtime stability, performance, and the velocity of safe, automated releases.

March 2026 focused on delivering core feature enhancements, stabilizing the CI pipeline, and advancing CKD-based verifiability. Key work included ABI generation support, a major crypto/types infrastructure refactor, CKD public verifiability integration across the TS crate, contract, and node, plus extensive CI/testing and build/deployment improvements. Major bug fixes addressed protocol buffer bounds, vector-size crashes, and CKD type usage, complemented by documentation and maintenance activities that reduce risk and accelerate delivery.

February 2026 monthly summary for Near-One/mpc focusing on contract history modernization, cross-chain verification capability, dependency/runtime upgrades, and CI/test reliability improvements. Delivered concrete business value by simplifying contract state management, enabling cross-chain verification, and strengthening build/test processes.

2026-01 Monthly Summary for Near-One/mpc and near/docs. This month focused on strengthening testing, reliability, and security, while advancing performance-oriented testing and tooling upgrades across the MPC codebase and documentation. Key outcomes include faster, clearer test feedback through substantial test infrastructure improvements, broader test coverage, and critical bug fixes that stabilize network operations and security posture. The work aligns with a stricter dependency hygiene and CI reliability, enabling safer deployments and faster iteration cycles for product features.

December 2025 monthly summary for Near-One/mpc: Focused on modularizing cryptographic components, hardening deployments, and elevating test quality. Key deliverables include a dedicated MPC Attestation wrapper crate decoupled from mpc dependencies (increasing modularity and reuse), removal of legacy devnet nodes to streamline setup, CKD derivation path support with standardized API naming, a robust ECDSA MPC provider with presignature generation and signature creation, and a new V2Secp256k1 SignatureVariant to broaden ECDSA support. Also fixed a GCP image tag reference and delivered CI/test infrastructure enhancements (naming conventions, metrics, parallel signing, timeout improvements) to improve reliability and velocity. Business impact: faster onboarding, more secure cryptographic operations, streamlined deployments, and improved developer productivity.

Month 2025-11 focused on stabilizing the CI/CD pipeline, hardening attestation workflows, expanding CKD capabilities and testing infrastructure, advancing ABI handling, and widening test coverage. These efforts delivered more reliable release processes, improved security around attestations, broader CKD adoption across environments, and faster feedback loops for development and QA.

October 2025 monthly summary for Near-One/mpc focused on delivering cryptography-enabled features, hardening security, and improving performance and deployment reliability. Key outcomes include expanded CKD/BLS support with rerandomization, unified public key handling, deployment/CI improvements, enhanced backup security, and performance optimizations in domain registry lookups, complemented by robust tests and read-only keyshares API.

September 2025 focused on delivering robust CKD integration, hardening contract behavior, and improving build/release reliability across Near-One/mpc. The team shipped multi-layer CKD support, strengthened governance through DomainId separation, and advanced testing and CI practices to ensure stable, reproducible deployments in production and devnets.

In August 2025, the Near-One/mpc project advanced CI/CD reliability, expanded CKD capabilities across the MPC stack, strengthened test coverage, resolved deployment/config reliability issues, and documented secure deployment in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). These efforts reduced release risk, accelerated iteration, and broadened cryptographic workflows for multi-party usage.

July 2025 monthly summary for Near-One/mpc: Focused on streamlining deployment, improving test reliability, and validating configurations. Key outcomes include: (1) CI/Build Infrastructure Enhancements and Dependency Migration with TEE-enabled Docker images and reproducible builds; (2) MPC Contract Test Fixes aligning RTMR3 byte arrays and public keys; (3) Validation improvements for generate-test-configs preventing empty participant lists and clearer errors; (4) Dependency name migration across the codebase (cait-sith -> threshold-signatures) with associated workflow updates.