The Bug Behind the Bug: Anatomy of a Three-Layer Consensus Halt (opens in new tab)

A dev-log from building an AI-native layer one, mostly alone. I am 18, I build NOVAI, and you can find me as 0x-devc. NOVAI is a layer-one blockchain written from scratch in Rust, with a chained-BFT consensus in the HotStuff family and AI entities as first-class protocol primitives. This post is about the week my testnet wedged itself at a single block height and would not recover, and about the three-layer bug I eventually found sitting underneath a one-line error message. It is also, honest...