stacks-network/stacks-core

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The Stacks blockchain implementation

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Dominant language: Rust
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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634 open issues indexed

If the PoX anchor block is a shadow block, then none of its grandchildren tenures' block-commits will be valid- Open

stacks-network/stacks-core#7636 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Add Wasm unit tests as a required status check for CI Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7627 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Allow tenure extend across PoX cycle boundaries Open

stacks-network/stacks-core#7608 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Squashed (PCS) chainstate: proof=1 RPC reads return default values instead of an error Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7605 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Alert users about removal of versioned deploy Open

4.1.0-blocker

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7603 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
add `sunset_burn` field to `/new_burn_block` events Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7599 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Support unsigned transaction simulation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7563 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
cleanup: p2p deprecated config and dead code Open

chore

stacks-network/stacks-core#7561 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Move all of the test flags into a `cfg(test)`-gated `testing` module Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7522 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
[SIGNER BUG] Open

signer

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7521 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Add mempool check to txsimulate endpoint Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7519 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
docs: update in-repo docs with security best practices Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7511 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
pox-6: allow new stakers during the prepare phase by targeting cycle N+2 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7506 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[signer] improve `should_reevaluate_reject_reason` to use a locally persisted rejection reason enum (instead of `RejectReason`) Open

refactoring

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7495 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Improved handling of bitcoin reorgs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7482 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Expose event observer / event dispatcher status via RPC (`/v2/info`) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7475 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Does get-signer-grant-message-hash's docstring mention pox-addr by mistake? Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7469 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
block replay RPC: expose `problematic_skipped` on replayed transactions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7465 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Revisit tenure extend heuristics to take mempool txs into account Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7463 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Foolproof upgrade process Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7459 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
block replay RPC endpoint is slow for heavy blocks Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7439 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
StacksHttp rebuilds the entire RPC route table (~100 regex compilations, ~5 ms) on every inbound HTTP connection Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7403 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
refactor: explore cancellation token idea for static analysis and evaluation Open

refactoring

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7364 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Drop the unused `overrides` table from the burnchain DB Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7340 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
[Clarity] Native `uint`/`int` to fixed-width `buff` serialization (inverse of `buff-to-uint-be`/`-le`) Open

clarity

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7312 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
centralize all marf-squash related queries to `trie_sql.rs` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7297 · Opened Jun 10, 2026
[CI] Implement nightly workflow for `madhouse` tests Open

CI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7221 · Opened May 21, 2026
Surprising behavior for large transactions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7213 · Opened May 19, 2026
[pox-5] Move taproot utility functions from sbtc module to stacks-common Open

PoX-5

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7208 · Opened May 14, 2026
Determine which (if any) unit tests are stalling in CI Open

testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7198 · Opened May 11, 2026
Miner should emit events for *all* dropped transactions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7182 · Opened May 4, 2026
Add Native `ed25519-verify` Support to Clarity for Trust-Minimized Cross-Chain Authentication Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7180 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 3, 2026
[P2P] PeerNetwork::prune_frontier() is very slow under load Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7170 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Singlesig standard transactions are txid-malleable via high-S signature flip Open

stacks-network/stacks-core#7161 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Publish `stacks-codec` on crates.io Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7091 · Opened Apr 10, 2026
Nonce management infrastructure for high-throughput agent backends Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7043 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 26, 2026
Allow `contract-call?` to computed contract principal constant Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7042 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 25, 2026
[chainstate] The Stacks canonical tip rule must first rank by tenure ID consensus hash Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#7012 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 20, 2026
docs: update README with Nakamoto, sBTC, and Clarity 3 information Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6996 · Opened Mar 17, 2026
[docs] Better documentation on how to run tests Open

chore documentation help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6990 · Opened Mar 13, 2026
Miner may attempt early extends due to stale signer messages Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6980 · Opened Mar 12, 2026
bug: `assert!()` on peer-supplied `payload_len` in P2P validation allows remote node crash Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6978 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 11, 2026
bug: `return` instead of `continue` in signer message loop silently drops valid messages Open

stacks-network/stacks-core#6977 · 2 assignees · Opened Mar 11, 2026
[CI] remove the genesis nextest archive from workflows Open

stacks-network/stacks-core#6962 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 6, 2026
P2P: rate-limit pre-authentication Handshake messages per connection Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6960 · Opened Mar 5, 2026
feat: pruned nodes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6953 · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Recover from failed BTC transaction submission Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6947 · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Delete aggregate key voting code Open

stacks-network/stacks-core#6942 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 27, 2026
[Chore] Better handle open file descriptors Open

chore

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6916 · Opened Feb 17, 2026
Improve Signer handling of late block approvals Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stacks-network/stacks-core#6915 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 17, 2026

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