relay.goblin.st + nrelay.us-ea.st retire 2026-07-04 04:44 UTC. The live
gist pool already dropped relay.goblin.st; this removes it from the
compiled-in PINNED_POOL fallback so first-run/offline no longer ships a
dead relay. relay.floonet.dev remains THE primary dm+discovery+exit
(money-path) relay.
- pool.rs: remove the relay.goblin.st entry (12 relays now) and repoint
the pinned-pool tests onto relay.floonet.dev (counts 13->12, dm 11->10,
discovery 4->3; the dm-membership and exit assertions). Synthetic
parsing-logic fixtures that name relay.goblin.st are left untouched.
- wallet/e2e.rs: refresh the money-path E2E harness doc comment onto
relay.floonet.dev (the RELAY_A/RELAY_B consts already point there) so
the ignored on-chain test documents a live relay after retirement.
Validated: cargo test --lib pool (5 passed), cargo build ok.
Profile/username/NIP-05 reads were ~10s and the tunnel stalled 20s on a
dead gateway. Fixes:
- Profile/accepts/dm-relay fetches stream scoped to their dial set and
return on the first matching event instead of waiting for every relay
(or the full timeout) - the ~10s nprofile search.
- HTTP over the mixnet is tunnel-first, scoped-exit only as fallback when
the tunnel is not up (NIP-11/price/name lookups are public data).
- Name re-verify interval 78s -> 6h (was a debug leftover churning reads).
- Discovery relay NIP-11 probes run in parallel, not sequentially.
- Tunnel build timeout split from the exit dial cap: build 20s -> 10s
(env GOBLIN_NYM_BUILD_TIMEOUT) so a dead gateway is abandoned fast; the
exit money-path dial stays 20s.
- Cold start brings the tunnel up first, then prewarms the exit once after
publish (grant sequencing preserved).
- NIP-05 search bounded to 15s instead of hanging up to ~90s.
Money path (transport.rs, streamexit.rs) byte-for-byte unchanged.
Fix: a relay-pool cache written by an older build parses fine but lacks
the scoped-exit addresses, which silently disabled the fast money path
for up to 7 days after an update - relay connects rode the slow public
path for minutes. The cache is now ignored and replaced when it lacks
exits, and the pinned pool takes over immediately.
Fix: the scoped-exit mixnet client now prewarms at cold start, so the
sequencer's head start is real (it previously waited on a client that
nothing had started until the first relay dial).
Build: wallet submodule repinned to the upstream grim branch tip
(c2db754) - the previous pin was deleted upstream, breaking CI checkout
and fresh clones. Policy: submodules stay pinned to GRIM's sources.
Lean: drop verified-dead code (avatar upload pipeline, legacy UDP DNS
path, legacy watchdog, duplicate TLS config, one-use error type, dead
store helpers).
The 180s cold connect was the public-IPR path (nested TCP over the mixnet) plus
the public-exit lottery -- NOT the scoped exit, which was removed by mistake in
3372202. Restore the co-located MixnetStream exit: a relay connects in 0-2s over
it (measured), vs 15-180s over the tunnel.
- Cold-start sequencer: streamexit::is_ready + a bounded EXIT_HEAD_START gate in
nymproc so the exit client claims its Nym bandwidth grant before the tunnel,
avoiding two-client serialization (~1min otherwise). No SDK surgery.
- Pin relay.floonet.dev as the primary money-path relay (with its co-located
exit) in PINNED_POOL; keep relay.goblin.st as a secondary through transition.
- E2E: a funded 0.1 GRIN payment finalizes in 6s over the exit across two
different Grin nodes (grincoin.org, main.gri.mw).
The exit is unpinned everywhere, so the streamexit module + the exit_for/
exit_connect forks in transport + http were dead code. Remove them; the
wallet's only mixnet path is the smolmix tunnel.
The money-path exit ran a second mixnet client whose cold bootstrap blocked
first-connect ~100s per session. Unset the exit so the wallet reaches
relay.goblin.st over the fast smolmix tunnel (still fully over the mixnet).
Privacy backbone unchanged; the exit stays deployed for a non-blocking
redesign later.
Money path:
- Scoped, unbonded Nym exit for the money-path relay: the wallet dials a
relay operator's co-located exit over a MixnetStream (src/nym/streamexit.rs)
which pipes to its one relay; hostname-validated TLS end to end, no public
DNS. Anchor + fallback (never pin-only): any exit failure degrades to the
smolmix tunnel. relay.goblin.st's exit address is pinned in the relay pool
(src/nostr/pool.rs) and the maintainer gist so it bootstraps offline.
- STREAM_SETTLE bridges the open-before-accept gap so the first TLS byte is
not dropped into a stalled handshake.
- Verified end to end: two wallets complete a real gift-wrapped Grin payment
through relay.goblin.st over the exit, finalized + posted on mainnet
(src/wallet/e2e.rs, ignored live test).
Encryption:
- Adopt NIP-44 v3 for the NIP-17 gift-wrap path (G4): src/nostr/wrapv3.rs,
nip44 path dep; v3<->v3 and v3->v2 interop.
Also: mix-DNS (src/nym/dns.rs), full localization pass, GUI polish,
avatar-ring example, Android icon/script updates, GRIM deviation notes,
xrelay + connect-timing tests.
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