Proposal: Canton Reentry, the recoverability module of the Canton Validator Reliability Suite
Development Fund Proposal Submission
Proposal file:
proposals/2026-08-Equilibrium-Reentry.md
Applicant
Organization:
Equilibrium
Author / Primary Contact:
Olli Tiainen (olli@equilibrium.co)
Champion:
Heslin Kim, Zenith (@heslin-zenith)
Proposal Classification
Proposal Type:
- RFP-aligned proposal
- Individual initiative
RFP / Roadmap Area:
RFP #23, Validator and Shared Infrastructure Security and Resilience
Label:
node-deployment-operations
Funding & Timeline
Total Funding Request:
1,000,000 CC base. Maintenance is priced separately at 68,000 CC per quarter for four quarters, so 1,272,000 CC is the maximum.
Project Duration:
~5 months engineering, adoption window to month 12, quarterly maintenance
Maximum Amount:
N/A
Maximum Duration:
N/A
Summary
Canton Reentry lets validator operators check before an outage whether their node can still recover, how much recovery runway remains before a Super Validator disables it, and whether their backups actually restore. It evaluates twelve recovery conditions against the running node and the operator's own backup artifacts, then tests the dumps in isolation without changing or reconnecting the production node. It is the recoverability module of the open-source Canton Validator Reliability Suite.
Submission Checklist
- Full proposal file is included in this PR
- Organization and primary contact identified
- Champion identified or
Needs Championselected - RFP / roadmap alignment identified, if applicable
- Total funding request provided
- Project duration provided
- Proposal is within any RFP maximum amount
- Proposal is within any RFP maximum duration
- Milestones and milestone funding are defined in the proposal
- Acceptance criteria are based on ecosystem value
- Architectural alignment is addressed