Post Fiat Weekly Chronicle

Weekly network chronicle compiled from public sources by Terma, an independent research project run by Preaware.

Post Fiat Chronicle — Mar 16 - Mar 29, 2026

Weekly chronicle covering Post Fiat network activity and significant developments. Initial test run generated on 6 April with historic data. Subsequent entries will adhere to past week timelines, where Task Node and Network health data snapshot will be in sync.

Protocol & Technical

• Added new domain attestation guide (DomainAttestation.md) with file-based token injection and verification steps for validator domain verification (e9ba0f0)
• Updated node setup documentation (NodeSetup.md) with firewall hardening section, iptables rate limiting moved to DOCKER-USER chain, and fixed sudo requirements for external validator deployments (9e59cbf)
• Created release documentation (RELEASE.md) introducing versioned Docker image tagging with overwrite protection and protocol bump to v1.0.0 (4c20f8e)
• Added Orchard devnet end-to-end smoke testing runbook (ORCHARD_DEVNET_E2E_SMOKE.md) for live devnet validation procedures (b262b5e)
• Updated Orchard README documentation with enhanced devnet testing procedures and validator operation guidance (b262b5e)
• Documented XRPL 3.1.2 upstream merge analysis (upstream-merge-3.1.2-analysis.md) covering lending protocol fixes, exception handling improvements, and amendment updates (241a392)

Community & Founder

• The founder implemented task amendment functionality on tasknode.postfiat.org, allowing scope reduction or modification without full cancellation, and deployed “cursor for context doc” feature in Context Refine module chat with automatic edit persistence (March 25, 2026)
• A validator-ops channel was created to support LLM scoring and runpod integrations for AI-driven validator selection, with dedicated collaboration space for validator troubleshooting (March 24, 2026)
• Core development team completed tax-ready financial package and KPMG audit preparation alongside shipping the redesigned Post Fiat website with updated Task Node and Proof-of-Logits architecture diagrams (March 17-23, 2026)
• Development work focused on aggregate signal processing, hive mind intake refactor technical reviews, and protocol operations coordination including backtest systems and zero-cost portfolio analysis (March 16-20, 2026)

Task Node & Rewards

• Last full week (Mar 30 - Apr 05): ~2.2M PFT | ~376 payments | ~41 active wallets
• 4-week trend: W11 ~1.9M → W12 ~2.0M → W13 ~1.6M → W14 ~2.2M
• Cumulative distributed: ~15.6M PFT
• Total unique recipients: 67 wallets

Approximate, on-chain. Tracked wallets: rGBKxoTc…, rKt4peDo…, rKddMw1h…

Network Health

Snapshot: 2026-04-06 06:00 UTC

• Total validators: 37
• UNL validators: 5
• UNL 30-day agreement: 99.90%
• Validation quorum: 4
• Connected peers: 21
• Validated ledger: 1,683,344
• Node version: 1.0.0

Terma Updates

Ingested 5 new sources this cycle. Synthesis refreshed: Ecosystem Map, Technical Architecture.

Evidence archive — import manifest and synthesis change summary for this entry.