🚨 CEX Transparency Crisis: AscendEX Accused of Not Backing CL8Y 1:1

The CL8Y Bridge development shows significant progress this week: **Testing Status** - 507 unit and integration tests running at 100% pass rate - 47 out of 61 full E2E tests now passing (77%) - Remaining gaps focus on crosschain hash detection and unification - 20-minute E2E test suite covers various scenarios on local devnet **Codebase Metrics** - 50k lines of code plus 12k lines of comments - Language breakdown: 81% Rust, 14% Solidity, 5% shell scripts **Budget & Timeline** - $759.50 of $790 weekly Dev Cluster budget spent on AI inference - Developer expects remaining E2E tests completable within budget - Next phases: internal security audit and frontend dapp development The team continues fixing bugs found during E2E testing, particularly for operator transfer detection and activation. While integration testing runs behind schedule, the project remains within token budget.

The CL8Y Bridge team discovered a critical issue with crosschain address encoding during end-to-end testing. The original ASCII encoding approach caused storage byte size errors across different chains. **Key Technical Changes:** - Migrated from ASCII to a robust multichain address encoding system - Created new `multichain-rs` package to handle both USTC and EVM chains - Moved E2E testing from scripts to Rust for better performance - Identified gap in existing multichain libraries for USTC/EVM compatibility **Impact:** - Delays V1 release by 1-2 days - Improves code quality and consistency across operators, cancelers, and tests - Faster bug discovery on devnet through Rust-based testing The team views this as an important technical discovery that strengthens the bridge's foundation, despite the short delay.

**TerraClassic<>EVM Bridge Development Update** E2E testing infrastructure has been rewritten from scripts to Rust to handle growing complexity. The migration was prompted by unexpected technical challenges discovered during testing, particularly around crosschain hashing. **Key improvements:** - Faster test execution on local devnet - Quicker bug discovery and resolution - Better handling of integration test requirements **Current status:** Both Operator and Canceler services are functioning correctly on devnet, properly processing valid transfers and rejecting invalid ones. **Next steps:** - Expand test coverage to additional scenarios - Implement Prometheus and Grafana monitoring - Conduct red team testing and internal audits - Release to testnet

The USTRIX community has made a significant contribution to support USTR by donating 2% of the total USTRIX token supply to the UST1CMM treasury at [UST1CMM.com/treasury](http://UST1CMM.com/treasury). **Key Details:** - Donation facilitated by @BurnixToken - Represents community backing for USTR initiative - Follows recent milestone of 1M+ $USTC preregistrations across BSC and Terra Classic This treasury contribution demonstrates growing ecosystem support for the CMM (Community Market Maker) initiative.

**Automated Testing Infrastructure for CL8Y Bridge** Developer CF has released a fast Terra Classic testing environment that enables LLM-driven security testing for the CL8Y bridge. **Key Features:** - Allows AI to write automated test scripts - Enables red team testing and fuzz attacks with thousands of attack vectors - Quick deployment/teardown for efficient testing cycles **Available Now:** - Code released at [github.com/PlasticDigits/localterra-cl8y](http://github.com/PlasticDigits/localterra-cl8y) - Implementation examples in cl8y-bridge-monorepo **Current Status:** Bugs continue to be identified and resolved during end-to-end testing, particularly around operator transfer detection. While implementation ran ahead of schedule, testing and integration are behind but within token budget.