morphit/RELEASE-NOTES-v1.0.0-beta.28.md

Morphit v1.0.0-beta.28

This release changes how your instance creates new Blurt accounts at signup, so that it uses the only account-creation method Blurt still supports. Until now the relay relied on Blurt's Account-Creation-Token system — minting tokens ahead of time and spending one per signup. Blurt disabled that system at a hard fork (both of its operations now hard-fail on the chain), so the relay now creates each account with a direct account-creation operation instead, paying the chain's account-creation fee inline at the moment someone signs up.

For people signing up, nothing changes: registration still costs you nothing, you still get the welcome bonus after your first completed trade, and listing fees are unchanged. The difference is entirely on the relay's side — how it talks to the chain to create your account.

Behind Morphit's beta access gate this hadn't surfaced as a visible failure yet, but the old token-based path would have blocked signups on any public instance. This release puts account creation back on a working footing.

Changed

• New accounts are created with a direct account-creation operation. The relay now pays the chain's account-creation fee (about 100 BLURT) inline, per signup, reading the exact current fee from the chain each time so it always matches what the network requires. The previous token-based approach — minting Account Creation Tokens in advance and consuming one per signup — is gone, because Blurt no longer allows either token operation. The account that ends up created, the one BLURT of starter bandwidth it receives, and the welcome bonus after a first trade are all exactly as before.

For operators

• No more token minting — keep the relay funded instead. There is no longer a weekly token-minting ceremony, no in-process auto-minter, and no mint-acts script or timer. Your relay creates each account by paying the fee directly from its liquid BLURT, so the one thing it needs is enough BLURT on hand to cover your signups (roughly 100 BLURT each, plus the welcome bonuses for people who go on to trade). When the balance runs low the relay pauses signups cleanly and your alert bot messages you over Matrix; top it up and signups resume on their own within about thirty seconds. The total cost is the same as before — only the timing changed, from pre-paying a weekly batch to paying per signup.

• Upgrading from an earlier deploy: after morphit-ops upgrade, remove the leftover token-minting pieces if you set them up — the morphit-relay-mint-acts.service and .timer units, and any MORPHIT_RELAY_AUTOMINT_* or MORPHIT_RELAY_WEEKLY_ACT_COUNT lines in your relay's environment file. They no longer do anything. The funded-balance alert you may already have configured (the indexer's relay-balance threshold) keeps working unchanged. See OPERATIONS.md §0a for the funding math and §47 for the low-balance alerts. As with recent betas, this release changes no third-party dependencies.

Under the hood

• A regression guard pins the new path. A new automated check verifies that the relay builds the direct account-creation operation with the fee paid inline and the exact field layout the chain expects, and fails if anyone ever tries to bring back the disabled token operations. The key-custody design is unchanged — the same online key that signed the old operation signs the new one — and the architecture decision record and operator runbook have been updated to match.