The snapshot parse, index builds, electrum sync and snapshot refresh ran on
the browser's main thread at launch. They now run in bns-indexer.js, a
utilityProcess, in two phases: the local snapshot first (no network), then
— once the first page has loaded — the published snapshot (one download)
and the electrum poll. Main keeps a mirror of the name map for its
synchronous lookups; tabs no longer wait for the index to restore.
With no local index yet, a name under a known BCNR TLD gets one lookup of
just that name on the gateway and opens; the full snapshot and the electrum
check follow in the background, and every quick answer is compared with the
verified index when it lands (a mismatch reloads the affected tabs). Plain
web hosts are never sent to the gateway, and the extension-publisher check
only accepts verified data.
DESIGN-bns-indexer-service.md: Ariadne's Thread as the owner of the one
shared indexer (scope x mode, launch at start, power, and a resolver that
never depends on the indexer).
Session restore no longer loads any page on launch. In 0.3.63 the strip was
built from saved titles + favicons and only the previously-active tab's URL
was navigated at startup, so a 20-tab session cost one renderer load instead
of twenty — but that one load is still a real page, often the heaviest one
in the whole session, and it fought every other startup task for the main
thread while the window sat not-responding. Now every restored tab, the
previously-active one included, comes up dormant: zero page renderers at
launch, no page starts loading until the user asks for a specific tab
(clicks the chip, hits reload, types in the URL bar). The previously-active
tab stays highlighted in the strip so one click brings it back; the content
area sits with the tab's own background colour until that click. RAM-at-
launch is now just the chrome, the overlays and the strip — a 500 MB saved
page never materialises as a renderer the user did not even ask to see.
A pending tab that is navigated explicitly (URL bar, link, search) drops
its saved URL at the top of navigateTab, so a later reload or chip click
can't snap it back.
Quick-links strip default set is now Telegram, WhatsApp, X, YouTube — in
that order. Messenger and Spotify are out of the default; users who want
them can still add them via Settings › General › Quick links. Existing
installs whose list still matches the previous untouched default (same six
ids in the same order) migrate on next launch; any customisation (reorder,
add, remove) is left alone.
The startup check shared the main thread with snapshot parsing, tab restore
and add-on activation, under a 5 s abort timer started before the request.
Measured on an empty profile: 3.2 s for the manifest fetch, 1.6 s of it the
event loop being busy; a real profile went past 5 s, the abort won, the
failure was swallowed and nothing retried before the 6-hourly recheck. The
update only appeared after a manual "Check for updates".
- the startup check runs 8 s after the toolbar is ready and retries with
backoff (30 s, 2 min, 10 min, 30 min) when it fails
- 20 s timeout via AbortSignal.timeout
- a failed installer download is retried on the next check instead of
staying failed until the next release
- failures are logged
Reported as "opening Aegis makes Theseus get stuck / not responding", and it
was Aegis's fault.
The host's add-on store is ONE JSON file per add-on, and storage.get() does a
readFileSync plus a JSON.parse of the whole thing on every call —
synchronously, on the Electron main thread, the thread that drives the entire
browser. storage.set() additionally stringifies and writes all of it.
That store had grown to 7.4 MB, 99.9% of it one wallet's txCache: getTx()
kept every transaction it ever fetched, with full vin/vout arrays, and a busy
chipnet test wallet had thousands. Measured on the real file: parse 59 ms,
stringify 39 ms. So one storage.get blocked the UI for ~60 ms, one set for
~99 ms, and fullState() — which reads the store seven times over
selectedWalletId, walletRoles, walletEntries, snapshotForSelected and the
server list — cost ~420 ms. emitState() runs on every adapter change, across
nine wallets, so the main thread was never given back.
Three changes:
- txCache is capped at 400 entries, pruned newest-first by block time
(unconfirmed entries sort as newest — they are the current ones). Worst
case ~0.3 MB per wallet instead of unbounded.
- TX_CACHE_VERSION 3, so existing oversized caches are discarded on first
load rather than needing a manual clear.
- loadHistory() only persists when something actually changed; an idle wallet
was rewriting the whole file on every poll for nothing.
- api.storage gains a write-through read cache, so repeated gets cost one
parse per process instead of one per call. Writes still go to the host
unchanged. Safe because this process is the only writer — Aegis's panel
talks over addon messages and never touches addon storage; if that changes,
the cache has to go.
Ships fc25e1c and 380ac57: a website loaded into the Settings tab could read
the password vault, add-on updates accepted any publisher's signature, and
the review's follow-ups (stale BNS records, POST replay, background dialogs
stealing focus, update helper on non-ASCII profiles, ...).
- Resolved names are re-resolved when a newer index lands and evicted when
they drop out of it; an edited ip/s3/tls record, a transfer or an expiry
used to keep serving the old target until restart. The signed-DNS A
fallback follows its 30 s TTL instead of the first answer it ever saw.
- A cross-host navigation to a host the warm index knows is unregistered is
left to Chromium: replaying it via loadURL turned form POSTs (OAuth
form_post, SAML, 3-D Secure) into bodyless GETs. The site badge follows
navigations Chromium makes on its own.
- A background tab's alert/confirm no longer pulls its tab to the front; it
waits, marked in the tab strip, until the user switches to it. Dialogs in
other windows use the async box, so they no longer freeze every tab.
- Messages resolves sender keys from the browser's own index (one map per
index generation) instead of a full chain walk per unknown sender; the
dedupe set is bounded.
- Ariadne uninstall reads HKLM only and runs nothing but unins###.exe from
Program Files, elevated directly rather than via cmd /c.
- Tor and an add-on proxy no longer wipe each other's settings: Tor wins
while on, the add-on's rules come back when it goes off.
- Profile migration copies beside the target and renames it into place;
a failed copy keeps the old, complete profile instead of a partial one.
- Reload/DevTools/zoom shortcuts in app and link windows act on that window;
Ctrl+B stays with web pages (bold) and toggles the sidebar elsewhere.
- quickPanel comment corrected: it shares the default session on purpose.
A preload belongs to the WebContents, not the page: a website loaded into
the Settings tab kept window.cfg and could read every vault password, flip
settings and install extensions without consent. Settings and add-on tabs
now never load web content, and the channels behind settings-preload check
their sender. `navigate` no longer accepts calls from web pages.
Add-on updates trusted any publisherSig, whatever name it carried, even for
bundled add-ons. The trust root is now the installed addon.json (publisher,
or the operator key when there is none); versions must be plain dotted
numbers; a community install can't take over a bundled or foreign id.
Also:
- autofill matches and fills against the live URL, not a stale prov.host
- bns:// forwards the raw request path (..%2F escaped the name's bucket)
- clipboard-read denied, openExternal asks; forged collision choices ignored
- web pages can't window.open file:/chrome:/theseus:; data:/blob: no longer
go to the search engine; the quick-links panel loses home-preload
- clear-history-on-quit is awaited and removes history.json too
- update helper takes its paths from the environment (non-ASCII profiles)
- electrum poll has a deadline; misses wait at most 2.5 s
- p records go through Tor; add-on proxy credentials are actually used
- whole-folder require-cache bust on add-on version change; failed
activate() no longer leaks its request filter
- approvals released when the window closes; web-app ids stay on-origin
window.bitcoincash was gated on a ".x" hostname in both the preload and the
host handlers — inherited from the pre-multi-wallet build, when every dapp
Aegis knew about was a Silent Mode one. It was never a security boundary: the
TRX / ETH / SOL bridges have always injected everywhere, and every BCH call
still crosses into main, raises an approval overlay and honours per-origin
permissions. The preload cannot read an address or sign anything by itself.
What the gate actually cost was Cauldron, bch.guru and our own dapps on other
TLDs (potidaea.asm) seeing no BCH provider at all, on a wallet whose entire
subject is BCH. WizardConnect was never gated this way, so the two halves of
the same bridge disagreed about who could talk to it.
isBchOrigin becomes isDappOrigin and now only keeps non-web schemes out —
file://, chrome://, data:, javascript: and anything unparseable.
Separately: page-inject declared https://*/* only, so a dapp served from
http://127.0.0.1 got no preload at all, which is a different cause from the
.x gate and would have survived removing it. localhost, 127.0.0.1 and [::1]
are now matched over http as well (the host's compiler makes the port
optional, so :3000 and :5173 are covered). Plain http on any other host stays
out, since an http page is tamperable in transit and only local development
needs the exception.
Two regressions in 0.26.0.
The PIN was still asked after the wallet had painted. pinGateOnLoad() ran
after render() and was not awaited, so the interface appeared — balances and
all — and the pad then opened on top of a panel the user could already read.
It is now awaited before the first render, and `pinGateBlocked` keeps the
chrome hidden for as long as the PIN is owed: render() returns early into a
closed door, state pushes cannot paint around it, and Settings is covered too
(unlike the vault lock, where Settings must stay reachable to create a PIN in
the first place, here it would just be a way around the gate). Cancelling
leaves the door shut with a retry rather than falling through to an open
wallet.
The pad threw digits away mid-entry. render() fires on every state push —
balance polls fire it every couple of seconds — and renderLockScreen()
rebuilt body.innerHTML unconditionally, replacing the pad and its buffer
under the user's fingers. The reset was timed to the poll, not to the
keypress count, which is why it looked like "after two digits". All three
branches are now keyed on body.dataset.mode and rebuild only when the mode
actually changes; the master-password and first-run forms had the same defect
and were erasing half-typed input the same way.
Also: every pad was wired through getElementById, so two pads alive at once
(a load gate plus a transaction gate) were duplicate ids and the second
setupPinPad bound the first pad's buttons. All four are now scoped to their
own container, only one PIN prompt can be open at a time, and setupPinPad
carries a note saying why it must never be handed a global lookup.
Clicking an icon on the left strip now opens the service inside a dedicated
380-px mini-view (quickPanel) next to the strip, Opera-style, instead of a
new full-sized tab. Click the active icon again to close the panel; click a
different one to switch. If the panel is already pointed at the same host,
we skip the loadURL so scroll position, open chat and login state survive
a close+reopen round-trip.
Icons now paint as real brand SVGs (Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, X,
YouTube, Spotify) with their official colours, bundled inside quicklinks.html
so no external favicon fetch leaks the fact that the strip is loaded.
Unknown ids fall back to a letter chip. The strip vertically centres the
icons between two flex spacers to match Opera's layout.
Defaults ship Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, X, YouTube and Spotify. The
Settings › General › Quick links section still lists / adds / removes
entries and toggles the strip.
New thin vertical column (44 px) on the left side of every page, Opera-style.
Click an icon to open its web app in a new tab; if a tab is already open on
that host, we focus it instead of stacking another one. Hidden in HTML
fullscreen so a video still fills the window; toggle via Settings › General ›
Quick links › Show the strip.
Defaults ship X, Telegram and WhatsApp. The Settings › General › Quick links
section lists the current entries with a Remove button each and a Title + URL
+ Add row that auto-prefixes https:// and auto-fills the title from the
hostname when empty. Edits write the whole settings.quickLinks array; the
strip view and the window layout react through settings-set, so no restart is
needed.
Settings › General › Updates panel also now runs standalone (no longer gated
by anything in the shared cfg.get().then() init), so a thrown exception in an
unrelated feature can't leave it stuck on "Loading…" any more — the version
line reads immediately and Check for Updates stays functional.
0.3.65 wrapped the Updates panel code in try/catch but still left it inside the
big C.get().then((s)=>…) block. If anything earlier in that block throws on a
specific profile — a feature's addEventListener on a missing element, a settings
read that rejects, anything — the panel's code never runs and the user sees
"Loading…" forever regardless of the try. Users reported this still happening on
0.3.65.
Updates panel now runs standalone right after the shared constants, as its own
immediately-invoked function, with no dependency on cfg.get() or any other
Settings init. Everything it needs (appVersion/recheckUpdate IPCs and two DOM
elements) is already available at script time. It will show "You're on vX.Y.Z"
or a specific error, never a stuck placeholder.
Settings › General › Updates used to stay on "Loading…" forever if anything
earlier in the shared C.get().then((s)=>…) init threw, or if the version IPC
rejected — the .catch(()=>{}) on the version fetch swallowed it. Users then
had no in-app way to run "Check for updates", because the button sits in the
same panel.
Panel init now wraps in its own try, surfaces the actual error on the status
line (missing IPC / fetch rejection / init failure), and keeps the Check for
Updates button functional even when the earlier version read fails. Toolbar
chip is unaffected either way — the auto-updater runs independently.
Windows's "App is not responding" dialog and Task Manager read FileDescription
from the exe's VERSIONINFO resource, which electron-builder sets from
package.json's description. The marketing tagline sat there, so a frozen tab
produced "Theseus Navigator — a browser that follows the thread. By Silent
Mode, a Deviant project. is not responding". Override via build.extraMetadata
so only the built asar's description is clipped to "Theseus Navigator"; the
source description stays as-is for npm metadata.
(The "not responding" freeze itself is fixed in 0.3.63 by the lazy tab
restore — users still on 0.3.62 will see it until they take 0.3.63.)
Session restore now paints the full strip from the saved titles + favicons and
loads only the ACTIVE tab's page; every other restored tab lives as a dormant
WebContentsView and navigates for the first time when the user clicks it. For
a 20-tab user that drops cold start from 20 renderer loads racing chrome.html
to one, so launch is roughly flat whatever the tab count — fixes the "not
responding" freeze on a session with many restored tabs. session.json is now
v3 ({v:3, tabs:[{url,title,favicon}], active}); v1/v2 session files still
parse (their tabs restore lazy without a cached title, which arrives on first
activation). Reload on a dormant tab materialises it.
Privacy › Anti-fingerprinting › Language is now two modes — Automatic (system
language) and Manual — matching the General › Website language row and the
URL-bar globe chip. The old Spoof-choose top-10 and Hide-en-US modes are gone
from the UI; legacy saved values auto-migrate to Automatic on first open. The
Manual list is the same 24 languages the General row uses, kept in one place
(WEB_LANG_LIST), so all three surfaces stay in sync.
Changing the language via the globe chip or either settings row now reloads
the active tab — the server picked the response body from Accept-Language on
the original request, so an already-rendered page can't adopt the new language
on its own. A reload is what a user clicking a one-click language switch
expects.
The Location row's country dropdown now stacks under the mode dropdown on its
own line when Manual is picked, so an open menu above it can't visually cover
it (the row's flex-row max-60% layout could wrap it where another dropdown's
overlay sat).
Also: the settings-update broadcast now reaches every open settings tab, not
only the chrome — so changing the chip updates both the General Website-
language row and the Privacy Anti-fingerprinting Language row live without a
Settings refresh.
Reported: after a restart Aegis opens without asking for a PIN, then demands
one as soon as you click something. That came from the only control being
requirePinForSending — safeStorage remembers the master password, so the
wallet reopens unlocked, and the PIN prompt then ambushes the first action.
Asking at the door is coherent. Asking nothing is coherent. Asking once the
user is already inside is not.
"Ask for PIN" is now four independent triggers, because wanting one at
startup and again per transaction is a normal combination:
- On each browser restart (compares a per-process boot id; a timestamp
cannot tell a restart from a long idle)
- On each wallet launch (hide/show — one panel load is one launch)
- Every 6 hours
- Each transaction
With none ticked, an open wallet is never interrupted again. The decision is
made host-side: the panel reloads on every hide/show and must not be the
thing that remembers a gate was cleared. A clearance is only recorded after
the panel has actually decrypted the PIN blob, which is proof rather than a
claim, and ticking a trigger does not fire it retroactively.
restart defaults ON for a wallet that otherwise reopens fully unlocked, and
transaction inherits the old requirePinForSending so nobody loses a gate they
had chosen. Removing the PIN clears every trigger and the clearance record.
Every history row and Explorer button on an imported chipnet wallet opened
https://chipnet.imaginary.cash/tx/… , whose web interface has been returning
502 for weeks. chain-bch.js was moved to our own explorer and this adapter
was missed — which is most chipnet wallets in practice, since a keystore bulk
import produces imported ones.
Points at https://aegis.x/explorer/chipnet/ like the HD adapter. The host's
Electrum endpoint on :50004 is a separate thing and is still in use.
Three separate reasons the Refresh button looked dead:
- wallet.js refresh() returned immediately when state.scanning was set, so a
manual press during a background poll did nothing at all. A forced refresh
now awaits the in-flight pass and then does real work; background polls
still yield. scanning is only ever written inside doRefresh, which only
refresh() calls, so scanning implies a pending inflight to wait on.
- The adapters catch their own fetch failures onto state.error instead of
rejecting, so awaiting refresh() proved nothing and refreshChain reported
ok:true for a wallet that had just failed against a dead server. It now
reads the snapshot back.
- Success changed only a tooltip. Balances that were already current left the
screen identical, which is indistinguishable from a broken button. It now
flashes a result and says how many wallets were refreshed, or how many
failed and why.
Version bumped once for this batch; not published yet.
The coin drilldown header carried "← Back" on its left and ✕ on its right.
They were bound to the same handler and carried the same tooltip, so the row
spent its left edge on a duplicate of the control at its right edge. ✕ stays;
the title now starts at the left edge, which .wctitle already handled via
flex: 1.
Switching network on the new header chips moved the selected wallet but left
the list below it alone. In the addresses drilldown stripView.groupKey pins
"<chain>:<network>", so the header read chipnet while the rows underneath
were still mainnet addresses.
The chip now retargets that groupKey when the drilldown belongs to the chain
being switched, and leaves a drilldown on any other chain alone. The coins
view already keyed off activeNetworkByChain and needed nothing.
Switching also lands on whichever wallet that network was last left on
instead of the first in list order, which means row clicks have to record
that — otherwise picking a wallet, leaving the network and coming back
returned somewhere else.
The header read bottom-up. The balance sat under a row of connection detail,
and the network you were on was reported in that status row while the control
that could actually change it was a chip row buried in the picker's coin
drilldown — two places for one idea, with the useful half two clicks deep and
only reachable from inside a wallet list.
Reordered to match what people open the panel for:
1. wallet label
2. balance and portfolio
3. network selector
4. connection status and the per-wallet verbs (Explorer, Faucet)
The selector and the indicator are now the same control: a chip per network
this coin has wallets on, the active one marked, always present while a
wallet is selected. Switching picks a wallet on that network and keeps the
picker's per-chain network memory in step, so the two views cannot disagree.
A single-network chain still renders its one chip. It is the indicator the
status row used to carry, and hiding it would make the header height jump as
you move between chains. A testnet whose label already says so (Chipnet
testnet) no longer also gets a TEST tag; Nile and Sepolia still do.
A seed import offered exactly one prefilled path and no alternatives, so a
seed from a wallet on a different path derived a valid but empty address and
reported a 0 balance. Nothing distinguished "wrong path" from "empty wallet",
which is why repeated imports of a funded wallet all looked identical.
Both real cases hit it. Bitcoin.com derives mainnet BCH from coin type 0' —
its Copay lineage predates the 145' split — while Aegis prefilled
m/44'/145'/0'/0/0. And chipnet tooling derives from 145', while Aegis
prefilled BIP44's testnet 1'.
- A preset dropdown per coin and network, each entry naming the wallets that
path belongs to, with the free-text field kept for anything unlisted.
- "Check which path has my funds" derives each candidate and asks Electrum
for balance and history, five addresses deep per candidate so a wallet
whose first address is spent clean is still found. Results are listed with
balances and a one-click Use; when nothing matches, it says so instead of
implying the wallet is empty.
- The chipnet IMPORT prefill becomes 145'. The vault-derived chipnet account
path stays m/44'/1'/0' — changing that would move the addresses of wallets
that already exist.
The scan derives, queries and returns counts; it stores nothing, and the
mnemonic crosses the same boundary importWallet already uses.
Reported as "WizardConnect pairing is done only via Mainnet, chipnet is not
available on UI". Chipnet pairing works and is not filtered anywhere: the
Connect pane reads state.wallets unfiltered, wcPairableWallets() keys only on
chain/phase/eligibility, and startForWallet registers every BCH wallet
whatever its network. The profile even holds a live wc:// URI against
bch-chipnet-0, so a chipnet wallet has already paired.
What it actually was: the picker listed wallets in registry order, and a bulk
keystore import put fifteen unpairable chipnet WIF wallets ahead of the two
chipnet HD wallets that pair fine. Every visible row was a greyed-out
"can't pair" testnet entry, so the list read as "chipnet is unsupported"
while the working options sat at positions 17 and 19 of 19.
Group the select instead: "Can pair" first, "Cannot pair" after. The reasons
stay visible — they were asked for, and a wallet greyed out with no
explanation reads as broken — but they no longer hide the wallets that work.
Only a WIF import is ineligible, because hdwalletv1 hands the dapp an xpub
and one key is not a key tree. Promote to HD (0.11.0) remains the fix for
those.
Getting a key back out of Aegis only worked for wallets it derived itself.
Every imported adapter's recovery() returned xprv:null with "Recovery lives
in the source of the import", so the wallets most likely to need exporting
were the ones that refused, and the vault-derived ones handed over an xprv
behind nothing but an approval click.
There is one gate now, and it is enforced in the host. revealSecret takes the
master password and verifies it with vault.lifecycle.unlock before it reads
anything; the panel obtains that password either by decrypting the PIN blob,
which wraps exactly it, or by asking. Both routes end at the same proof, so
the host never takes the panel's word for authorisation. The old
recovery({reveal:true}) path is gone and all six Settings buttons route here.
Three wrong PINs switch to the master password rather than dead-ending, and
those attempts still count toward the existing 15-minute lockout, so a
fumbled PIN costs nothing and a guessed one gains nothing. Being locked out
of the PIN also falls through to the password: the lockout exists to stop PIN
guessing, not to lock an owner out of their own key.
"Use PIN to show secret keys" defaults ON, unlike the send flag — a send is
already fronted by an approval overlay, whereas a revealed key is
irreversible the moment it is on screen. Turning it off moves the prompt to
the master password. There is deliberately no setting that reveals a key
without asking for anything.
It is NOT called a recovery phrase, because Aegis has none to show. An import
stores mnemonicToSeedHex(words) and discards the words, vault wallets are
HKDF(vault root, purpose) and never had words, and password-vault.js is
explicit that the seed is never persisted. So each form names itself — WIF,
private key (hex), wallet seed (hex), wallet key (hex) — and says where it
can actually be restored. Someone who writes down what this shows believing
it is twelve words has backed up nothing, which is the one outcome this
screen has to prevent.
Intl.DisplayNames.of("en-US") returns "American English", which spells out a
distinction the picker doesn't make — one row per language, with English the
UK original. Pass the base code to Intl so the chip tooltip, the "Automatic
(…)" label and the Settings hint all read as the plain language name
(English, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese) regardless of which regional variant
the OS or the saved setting happens to be.
presearch.com has redirected every request, searches included, into a
dead host since 2026-09-28, so a user who picked it gets Cloudflare's
origin error instead of results. Rather than deleting the entry, a catalog
engine can now carry a frozen reason: it stays listed in Settings, greyed,
with the reason as its tooltip and an Unavailable badge where the switch
was; it is never enabled, never in the picker, never accepted as the
default from any path, and a profile that had it as default falls back at
startup. Turning it off still works, and deleting the field brings the
engine back exactly as the user had it.
Sits on top of the earlier 0.3.61 commit (bundled into the same shipped build):
Spanish and Portuguese collapse to their originals — es-ES and pt-PT — and the
Mexican / Brazilian variants come off the picker (same 2-letter chip, roughly
the same text). Ordering is now global-speakers ranking with European
languages first, so the languages a European desktop is most likely to want
sit at the top: English, Español, Français, Português, Русский, Deutsch,
Italiano, Türkçe, Polski, Nederlands, Ελληνικά, Čeština, Svenska, Suomi —
then the non-European tier led by 中文, हिन्दी, العربية and so on.
A WizardConnect pairing could land on an address the user had never seen.
Pairing took the selected wallet when it qualified and otherwise the first
pairable one in list order, so with the selected wallet ineligible (a WIF
import has no xpub) it silently fell through to whichever wallet happened to
be first. The approval named that wallet by label only, which does not help
when the label is one Aegis generated.
Three changes, one idea: the wallet a purpose uses should be something you
said, not something that fell out of list order.
- Roles. A wallet can be nominated for payments and/or for WizardConnect,
set from its manage modal and badged on its row. A role that points at a
removed wallet reads back as null instead of being trusted, so a stale
pointer can never quietly redirect a payment.
- The pairing approval asks. With more than one candidate it offers a
dropdown of them, each labelled with its own short address; with only one
it shows that wallet's full address. The rows are static, so naming a
wallet above a select the user can change would contradict itself — hence
one or the other, never both. The panel's own Connect pane now follows the
same precedence, because two rules for "which wallet" is how a pairing
surprises someone.
- Send gets a From row listing the wallets on this coin and network, with
balances. It switches the panel selection rather than carrying a separate
source: planSend and send resolve the wallet host-side from that, and a
second notion of "current" would let the form and the approval disagree.
Payments also becomes the opening selection when nothing has been picked yet,
which is what nominating it is for.
No Theseus release needed — approvalModal has supported a select row all
along, and the pick comes back as "allow+wallet=<id>", validated against the
options offered.
Ariadne 0.1.13 exposed /api/status and per-source enable flags in
policy.json. Theseus's Plug-ins > Ariadne's Thread sub-page now wires those
into a full UI, no daemon restart, no UAC.
Added to the plugins-ariadne sub-page (after Status, before Remove):
Collision policy -- radio group (BCNR-first / ICANN-first) writes
C:\ProgramData\Ariadne\policy.json.policy; hot-reloaded
by the daemon within 5 s.
Sources -- 3-column grid, one row per source (snapshotHttps,
electrumWss, perQueryLookup, diskCache, localApi):
enable checkbox + last-state summary
(last success / last error / hit-miss counters /
disk-cache size+mtime). Toggle writes
policy.json.sources.<name>.enabled and re-polls after
the 5-s hot-reload tick so the state text catches up.
Status report -- <pre> JSON dump of GET http://127.0.0.1/api/status
with Copy report + Refresh report buttons. This is
the paste-me-into-support artefact for any diagnosis.
IPC wiring:
main.js
ariadne-get-status -> GET http://127.0.0.1/api/status ({ok, status|error})
ariadne-get-policy -> read C:\ProgramData\Ariadne\policy.json (or {})
ariadne-set-policy -> merge {policy}, write back (validates enum)
ariadne-set-source -> merge {sources.<name>.enabled}, write back
(validates against the known 5 names)
settings-preload.js
ariadneGetStatus, ariadneGetPolicy, ariadneSetPolicy, ariadneSetSource
All four handlers write policy.json as the local user; no UAC. Works because
install.ps1 grants BUILTIN\Users Modify on the file (0.1.7+).
Sub-page auto-refreshes state every time it opens (listens on the existing
'section' custom event dispatched by showSection).
Not building/shipping Theseus here -- this rides the next Theseus release.
Panel gracefully handles: daemon down (shows 'Daemon unreachable' with a
pointer to the Status toggle), localApi disabled (daemon returns 503, panel
shows the error), missing policy.json (all sources default to true).
Privacy › Location is three modes now: Show real, Hide, Manual. Manual reveals a
50-country dropdown whose pick becomes the coordinates navigator.geolocation
returns to pages — country-capital granularity, no regions or free-form cities.
Old profiles on the retired "Spoof (region)" auto-migrate to Manual + the
region's representative country on first open, so nothing breaks.
VPN row in Privacy stops opening the wrong add-on: the sidebar now no-ops on a
specific panelId that isn't registered (used to silently substitute panels[0],
which surfaced Aegis whenever the VPN add-on was disabled), and the row hides
itself when vpn:main isn't in the sidebar panel list.
Language picker (globe chip menu + Settings › General › Website language) drops
the BCP-47 tag from every visible label — the tag surfaces only as the 2-letter
chip in the URL bar once picked. "English" is the UK original; the US variant
row is retired (same 2-letter chip, ~same text). Ukrainian dropped from the
quick list too. "Automatic" reads as the OS language name (Intl.DisplayNames)
instead of a raw en-US style tag.
A globe chip next to the URL-bar star shows the language sites see you in
(Accept-Language + navigator.language) — "AUTO" while following the OS locale,
the two-letter code once you pin one. Click opens a 23-language menu; the same
setting has a friendly row at the top of Settings › General. Both write to the
existing languageMode/languageValue and stay in sync with the Anti-fingerprinting
Language row through a settings-update broadcast (settings.html and chrome.html
both react live).
Settings › Plug-ins is now two compact rows — one per plug-in — with the on/off
toggle on the right and the update controls beside it. Clicking a plug-in's title
opens its own sub-page (plugins/ariadne, plugins/aegis) with the full description
and the Uninstall button, so the main list stays scannable and dangerous actions
stop travelling with the everyday ones. The Ariadne toggle and its sub-page
mirror the same scheduled-task state.
Went looking for a performance fix and found a correctness bug underneath it.
getTx() slims each transaction on the way into the cache, and the slim shape
kept only { value, scriptHex } — dropping vout.tokenData. That field is where
the server reports CashTokens. It is NOT in scriptPubKey.hex, which Fulcrum
returns with the token prefix already stripped. So the classify pass fetched
one transaction per UTXO, looked for a prefix that was never there, and
concluded "no token" every single time.
Measured against a real chipnet wallet (130 UTXOs, 91 of them token-bearing):
the old pass cost 54 requests for that address and found 0 tokens; sampling
12 of those transactions, exactly 0 had a scriptPubKey starting with the
token prefix. On the faucet-fed address with 28,289 UTXOs it was ~28k
requests, still finding nothing — which is what made the wallet look hung.
So HD BCH wallets have never shown CashTokens. 0.15.0 fixed the imported
adapter, which reads token_data off listunspent, and I took the HD path's
silence for an empty wallet.
Now: when the server negotiated protocol >= 1.5, listunspent carries
token_data and a UTXO WITHOUT it is definitively not token-bearing, so the
whole set is classified from the one call we already make — 1 request instead
of 28,289. Below 1.5 the fallback fetches parents as before but reads
vout.tokenData (present even at 1.4) and only decodes a prefix as a last
resort, so it is correct now too.
Both routes are reconciled onto one shape. They speak different dialects:
the decoder yields a numeric capability (0/1/2) labelled
immutable/mutable/minting, while Electrum sends a string and calls 0 "none".
Left alone, an identical UTXO would have described itself differently
depending on which server answered. The decoder's vocabulary wins, and the
Certificates pane treats immutable as the quiet default so only capabilities
that change what the holder can do get a tag.
txCache is versioned and dropped once: entries written by the old shape carry
no token information, and an absent field cannot be told apart from "no
token", so a warm cache on a pre-1.5 server would have reported a token
wallet as empty.
Verified against the live wallet: one request, 91 token UTXOs, 46 categories,
17 assets, 51 certificates — matching what the panel reports — with
capability labels normalised (5 immutable, 28 mutable, 18 minting).
Assets was one list holding two different kinds of thing. A fungible balance
answers "how much do I have"; a non-fungible one answers "which ones do I
hold", and they want different rows — an amount against a symbol, versus a
commitment and a capability. On a real chipnet wallet that meant 46 rows
where 32 of them were only ever going to say "1 NFT".
Split by what each category actually holds, so a category carrying both
appears in both — which is honest, because it really does hold both. Assets
counts categories; Certificates counts individual certificates, since "3"
should mean three things you hold rather than three groups.
Certificate rows carry the commitment, because it is the only thing that
distinguishes two certificates of the same category, and a MINTING or MUTABLE
tag, because "can still issue others" versus "is fixed" is worth seeing
without opening anything. A `none` capability is left unlabelled rather than
adding noise to every row.
"Certificates", not "NFTs": these are membership, licence and record tokens,
and NFT carries collectible-market baggage that misdescribes them. Ids and
data keys stay `nft` — that is the CashTokens protocol field, so it is
protocol name inside and product name on screen.
Two things caught while building it. `draw({})` was overwriting the "no
assets" empty state with an empty string, which is now the common case since
purely-non-fungible categories no longer appear there. And certificate rows
printed the category twice, as the title and again on the right — the right
column now only carries it when the row has a real name to lead with.
Metadata is looked up for every category, not just the fungible ones, so
naming a token also names its certificates.
The Receive tab carried two stacked toggle rows: Receive/Consolidate above
Address & QR/Assets. That is a lot of chrome for a 380px panel, and the two
rows were not the same kind of thing — Address and Assets are views of the
wallet, while consolidating is an action on its UTXO set. Consolidate now
sits with the other address actions, beside "Next unused address", with the
sibling count on the button.
The old toggle was also the only way out of the consolidate view, so that
view gains its own "← Back to address". Entering still resets the inline host
so the preview is costed fresh, which is what the toggle did.
The Send tab keeps its Send/Consolidate toggle: there, consolidating really
is an alternative way to send, so a toggle is the right shape.
Removed the two now-dead [data-rcv-mode] blocks rather than leaving selectors
that match nothing.
Verified by real visibility rather than the hidden attribute — a child of a
hidden parent keeps hidden=false, which made a first check look like both
panes were showing at once. rcvNormal and the address pane go away while the
consolidate pane shows, and Back restores them.
The public repos carried no license, so nobody could legally copy or build
on the code, and the whitepaper's "free software" had nothing behind it.
Theseus and its companions take the Mozilla Public License 2.0, the
file-level copyleft Firefox and Brave use, which is compatible with every
component they bundle. The resolver and gateway libraries take Apache-2.0
so that other implementations of the registry can reuse them without
copyleft in the way. The protocol documents and the whitepaper are CC BY 4.0.
A third-party notices file lists what the browser ships and fetches, with
the source offer the GPL sing-box binary the VPN add-on downloads requires;
the matching source archive is now published beside the binaries. The
names and marks are reserved in TRADEMARKS.md, separate from the code
license, so a fork must ship under its own name. Settings › General says
the license and links the three files; the whitepaper says the same.
Assets listed but every row read as a hex string. Three separate reasons.
**Both default registries were dead.** Checked 2026-09-29:
raw.githubusercontent.com/cashonize/registry/main/bcmr.json returns 404, and
bcmr.salemkode.com does not resolve. So no token resolved a name on any
chain, mainnet included — and the panel's `.catch(() => {})` meant the
failure was completely silent, indistinguishable from a token nobody has
registered. Replaced with OpenTokenRegistry, which answers and carries
chipnet identities. A dead registry is now reported instead of swallowed:
the reply says whether any registry answered, and the hint says so.
**The tokens in question publish no metadata at all.** Not a wallet problem
and not fixable by any registry list: their genesis transactions carry no
OP_RETURN whatsoever, so there is no BCMR authchain to follow and no
registry entry to find. Their names exist only inside the app that minted
them. So a token can now be named locally, per category, stored under
bcmr/local/<cat> and taking precedence over any registry — with a YOURS tag
so a self-assigned name is never mistaken for a published one. Clearing both
fields removes it and lets a registry entry show through again. Optional
decimals, because a raw fungible amount with no scale is its own kind of
wrong: 15000 became "150 GMX" once told there were two.
**The unnamed row printed the category twice**, once as the name fallback and
once as the sub-line. Unnamed rows now show the category as the identity and
"unnamed token · N UTXOs" beneath it.
The header comment also promised a bundled static registry fallback for
well-known tokens. There is no such directory and no load path for one; the
comment is gone rather than left to mislead.
Verified against the real module: local names beat registry entries, a
category with only a local name resolves instead of returning null, clearing
restores the registry value, out-of-range decimals are dropped, and the new
default registry resolves a real chipnet identity (OTRC, 6 decimals). In the
panel: naming a token repaints it with the tag and rescales the amount, and a
non-numeric decimals entry is refused with the modal left open.
Two changes to the same idea: one way to do each thing, and the same shape
for every coin.
**Assets is no longer buried under the QR.** The Receive body stacked
address → QR → assets in one column, so in a 380px panel the token list sat
permanently below the fold behind 200px of QR — and a coin holding no tokens
simply lost a section, which made every coin look structurally different.
Address & QR and Assets are now peers behind a persistent chip row. The count
rides on the chip, and a wallet with nothing says "No assets held by this
wallet" instead of the section vanishing. That mattered more than it sounds:
a chipnet wallet with 46 CashToken categories was indistinguishable from an
empty one until 0.15.0, because the only signal was an absent card.
The choice persists across re-renders and wallet switches — comparing token
balances between wallets should not throw you back to the QR on every click.
Switching back to Address redraws the QR, since a canvas sized while hidden
comes out blank and renderReceive only repaints when the address changes.
**The coin row's ▾ network dropdown is gone.** The coin view already carries
real network chips (data-browse-net: they filter the wallet list and show a
per-network count), so the popover was a second control for one job — and the
only one that hid its options behind a click. Chips are the single network
control now and the ticker is plain text again.
Verified in the panel: chips switch panes and track their own state, the
count shows, the empty state reads correctly, the QR survives the round trip,
and no .wchev / .wcname.wswitchable remain in the DOM.
Aegis negotiated a flat protocol "1.4". Measured against Fulcrum 2.1.0 on
chipnet, for a wallet holding CashTokens:
asked "1.4" -> negotiated 1.4 -> 39 utxos, 0 with token_data
asked ["1.4","1.5.3"] -> negotiated 1.5.3 -> 130 utxos, 91 with token_data
So 1.4 did not merely omit the `token_data` field — Fulcrum left the
token-bearing outputs out of listunspent altogether. Ninety-one UTXOs were
invisible to the wallet, along with the BCH sitting in them. That is a
balance-correctness bug, not only a missing Assets card, and it applied to
the HD path too, since lib/wallet.js reads the same listunspent.
Now a [min, max] range: a modern server picks 1.5.3, an older one still
settles on 1.4, so nothing that worked before stops working. The negotiated
version is recorded on the client for diagnosis.
Second half: the imported BCH adapter had no CashToken code at all — it never
set tokenBalances and snapshot() never exposed it, so the panel's Assets card
was hidden for every WIF import however many tokens the address held. A
chipnet test wallet with 46 categories showed nothing. It now aggregates from
the server's own token_data, which costs one call for the whole set rather
than the per-UTXO transaction fetch the HD path uses, and emits the same
serialised shape the panel already reads. Verified against that wallet: 130
UTXOs, 46 categories, 17 fungible, 32 with NFTs, JSON-clean.
Found because the user said their asset "uses a different asset category" and
suggested checking with the explorer. It is ordinary CashTokens; the wallet
simply could not see them. My earlier conclusion that the empty Assets card
was correct came from probing a single address that genuinely holds no tokens
and generalising from it.
Importing a Bitcoin.com seed showed a balance of zero. Two causes, one mine.
Mine: a Copay / Bitcoin.com backup QR is "1|<words>|<network>|<ACCOUNT
path>|…", and 0.13.2 dropped that path straight into a box whose contents are
derived as a LEAF. Deriving the account node itself yields an address the
wallet has never used — for the standard BIP39 vector,
qr96x72dpwrjmg8gtmfemmdhn6u8aqdgnvn4fp2906 instead of
qqyx49mu0kkn9ftfj6hje6g2wfer34yfnq5tahq3q6. An address with no history, so:
zero. An account path now extends to /0/0 instead of being derived in place.
The deeper one: a seed import mounted on the single-address adapter, which
watches exactly one scripthash. Bitcoin.com, Electron Cash and the rest
spread funds across a whole BIP44 account, so even with the right leaf the
balance only shows if it all happens to sit on the first receive address.
A seed import is an HD wallet and now mounts as one — the same BchWallet the
vault-derived wallets use, whose WalletKeys walks receive AND change to a gap
limit of 20. That is what actually finds the money, and it brings real spend
support to seed imports as a side effect.
WIF imports are unchanged: one key is one address, nothing to scan.
Existing seed imports are picked up without re-importing. accountPath is
stored in either shape — older imports kept the full leaf, the QR carries the
account — and the mount trims both to the last hardened element before
handing it to WalletKeys. The stale display address stored at import time is
irrelevant, since the panel reads the address off the adapter's snapshot.
Mounting now reads the signer up front to decide which adapter to use. A
locked vault still mounts watch-only from the stored address rather than
failing, and the WC manager gets its own copy of the root because it keeps a
live reference for the per-URI relay-identity HKDF.
Auto-detect already worked — the backend returns
detectedLanguage:{language,confidence} and the panel put it in the
status line. But that only appeared after a translation had already
run, in small text, away from the control that raised the question. You
could not tell what "Auto-detect" had decided before committing to it.
The first row of the source select now says "Auto-detect · German", and
it says so while you are still typing. Detection runs on its own via
LibreTranslate's /detect, debounced 700 ms and gated at 12 characters,
because a detector given two words is guessing and firing per keystroke
would pound a public mirror for nothing. It chains the same mirror
fallback as translation, so a dead primary does not make detection look
broken while translating still works.
Confidence below 60 renders as "German?" rather than silently asserting
a coin-flip. The Google backend has no detect-only route, so there
doDetect returns null instead of burning a request, and the label is
filled from the translation response — which every backend returns
anyway, so a skipped or failed detect is never worse than before.
Detection retires when a source is named explicitly, comes back on
returning to Auto-detect, and is wiped by clear. A right-click
selection schedules one too, since that text arrives with no keystroke.
Verified against the real mirror (de/fr/ja at 100/100/90%) and in the
harness: short text fires nothing, long text fires once, four rapid
edits debounce to one call, and every transition above lands.
Also adds the xray removal script used to take the old engine off all
three exits now that they run sing-box.
Nothing handled HTML fullscreen. Electron put the window in fullscreen for a
page (a video player) with the toolbar still on top, and when the page left
fullscreen while its tab was hidden, or the tab was switched away from or
closed, the window stayed fullscreen: no title-bar buttons, the taskbar
covered, and no key to get out. Tabs now report entering and leaving
fullscreen; the toolbar and sidebar make way for the page; switching or
closing the tab ends it and tells the page; F11 toggles a fullscreen with
the toolbar kept and doubles as the way out. A page's own exit is left to
Electron, which has already taken the window out by the time it tells us;
exiting again during that transition brought the window back maximized.
It was a native <select>, which can only show text, so each option carried
an emoji in front of the name; after the engine icons moved into the build
that was the one place still showing emojis. The control is now drawn by
Settings with the same icons as the rows below, grouped like the toolbar
picker, with arrow-key and Escape handling. Choosing a default there also
repaints the toolbar at once: the generic setting write never told it.
A real export read "1|buffalo body coyote poem …" and was rejected: the
classifier only accepted a bare phrase, so a version marker in front of the
words was enough to make a valid seed look like junk.
Wallets wrap the phrase in their own envelope — a version number, sometimes
a derivation path, pipe- or comma-separated, sometimes JSON. Rather than
guess which wallet produced it, the payload is now split on every run of
non-letters (spaces survive, since they separate the words) and any
BIP39-shaped run in the pieces is taken as the phrase. A derivation path
found anywhere in the original string is carried over too.
Being tolerant of the wrapper does not loosen what counts as a phrase: the
pieces must still be 12/15/18/21/24 words of 3-8 lowercase letters, so a URL
or an address breaks into single-word pieces and matches nothing. Verified
that the phishing-URL and address cases still fill no field.
The path only lands in the box when the box is empty. That field is
prefilled with the coin's default and may have been edited, and silently
changing which addresses get derived is what lost funds look like; if a path
is already there and differs, the message names both and leaves the choice
to the user. The unrecognised-payload preview also grew to 90 characters,
since 48 truncated the evidence needed to tell what a rejected QR actually
contained.
Every engine icon was an <img> pointing at Google's favicon service, fetched
again each time the picker, the toolbar or Settings rendered. Offline the
whole list collapsed to the emoji fallbacks, and each open told Google
which engines the user has configured. The catalog's icons now live in
engine-icons/<id>.png inside the app; a custom engine's icon is fetched
once (its own /favicon.ico first, the favicon service as fallback), cached
under the profile, and removed with the engine. Settings no longer falls
through to DuckDuckGo's icon service either. Phind ships no icon: its site
serves none through the bot wall.
The gateway checks a name's host rules before it decides what to serve, so a
blocked or redirected subdomain behaves the same whatever record the name
carries. Theseus only inherited that for names it proxies through the
gateway's /bns/ mount. A name with both s3 and ip — the shape that caused
the 2026-08-13 subdomain bug — would have had its blocked subdomain answer
anyway, because Theseus talks straight to the IP.
It now asks the gateway for the host's verified rule before taking either of
the paths it serves itself, and only for those paths, so an ordinary
subdomain navigation gains no round trip. Verification stays in one place:
the client reads a decision, it does not re-derive one.
The spec catches up with what is implemented — it still described v1 and
called hosts a future idea.
chipnet.imaginary.cash's web explorer is returning 502, so every "Explorer"
button on a chipnet wallet led to a Bad Gateway. Its Electrum endpoint on
:50004 is a separate service and is fine — balances, history and the send
path were never affected, which is worth stating because a dead explorer
link looks like a dead wallet.
The explorer now resolves transactions as well as addresses, so it can back
both links rather than half of them. One search box: 64 hex characters is
treated as a transaction id, anything else goes to the cashaddr decoder so
it can complain precisely. A transaction shows confirmations, total out,
size and timestamp, its inputs as links to the parent transactions, and its
outputs as links to the receiving addresses — in-page, without a reload.
Inputs deliberately show no amount: Electrum does not resolve it, and
fetching every parent transaction to display one number is not worth the
round-trips.
Aegis's chipnet explorerTx/explorerAddr now point there. Same chain data,
read over the same Electrum connection the wallet already trusts, and a page
we can fix ourselves the next time one breaks. Mainnet is untouched.
Import accepts a picture of a QR code. The file is decoded in the panel by
the vendored jsQR, drawn to a canvas: no upload, no network, no camera.
Image, not camera, on purpose. Theseus sets blockCamera + hideMediaDevices
by default and hides device labels from fingerprinting; a camera scanner
would fail silently for everyone until they turned that off globally, and a
wallet should not be the reason a privacy browser gives up the camera. A
photo or screenshot of the code needs no permission at all.
What comes back is classified, never trusted. A QR is opaque to the person
holding it, and "scan this to restore your wallet" is a working phish, so
the decode only chooses which field to fill:
BIP39-shaped (12/15/18/21/24 lowercase words) -> mnemonic field
WIF or 32-byte hex -> private key field
anything else -> nothing is filled; the
decoded text is shown so
the user can see it was a
URL, an address, or junk
Nothing auto-submits. The user reads what landed in the box and presses
Import, and the host handler still does the real validation.
jsQR 1.4.0 is vendored at lib/jsqr.js under Apache-2.0 with its LICENSE
beside it, unmodified and unminified — code that touches seed phrases should
be auditable in the shipped add-on, not an opaque blob. It is 57 KB gzipped.
Verified by round-tripping through the shipped path: Aegis's own encoder
builds the QR, it is rasterised to a real PNG File, and decodeQrFile() reads
it back byte-exact; an image with no code returns null rather than throwing;
and driving the actual file input fills the mnemonic for a seed, fills the
key field for a WIF, and leaves every field untouched for a phishing URL.
DNS over HTTPS through Chromium's secure DNS (app.configureHostResolver),
under Privacy › Network: Default protection (encrypted via the chosen
provider, plain if that fails — the default), Increased protection
(always the provider, never plain) or Off, with Quad9, Cloudflare,
Mullvad, AdGuard or a custom resolver URL. Any DoH mode also turns on
Chromium's built-in resolver, as Chrome does. Silent Mode names never
touch DNS, and Tor resolves remotely through the SOCKS proxy, so
neither path goes around it.
Global Privacy Control, on by default, under Tracking protection: the
Sec-GPC header on every request (added in the one request-header hook
beside the client hints) and navigator.globalPrivacyControl in pages.
