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Changelog

All notable changes to this project are listed here. The format follows Keep a Changelog, and versions follow Semantic Versioning. Before 1.0.0, a minor version may change interfaces.

[Unreleased]

Added

  • ChannelBus deployed on BNB Chain at 0x486110c35d9b90a9d6D85c8063A065f9e7b6b707 (code byte-for-byte the tested build); MAINNET.channelBus in the SDK. A test message was read back through public nodes, and the deployment is recorded for a replay test.
  • Public service https://api.tapeapi.fun (11.1013.tape): eight free, signed, block-pinned methods: blockNumber, balance, tokenInfo, tokenBalance, nftOwner, pairPrice, bnbUsd, tapeName (source examples/public-api).
  • Public relay https://relay.tapeapi.fun (12.1013.tape) for TAP-26 channels.
  • Playground https://tapeapi.fun/playground/: resolve any service by name, see every check, call it, copy the code.
  • Status page https://tapeapi.fun/status/ and a monitor (npm run monitor, a scheduled GitHub workflow that opens an issue when a service is down or a delegation has fewer than 14 days left).
  • Docs site https://tapeapi.fun/docs/ (English and Chinese), generated from docs/guides with npm run build:docs, including a Public API guide.
  • SDK: api.resolve('11.1013.tape') resolves TapeOut names (<#ID>.<processor>.tape) through factory.cpuAt.
  • Holder console: publishes a service's own free method list; bilingual; hardened (CSP, anti-phishing notice).
  • CI runs the JavaScript, Python and Foundry suites on every push.

Changed

  • Default RPC nodes are bnbchain, defibit and ninicoin dataseeds (publicnode timed out on every request on 2026-09-27), with a 3 s per-node timeout on the Workers.
  • The provider template (examples/cloudflare-worker/wrangler.toml) no longer names the project's own Worker or domain.

[0.1.0] — 2026-09-26

First public release. Pre-alpha: the free tier runs on TapeOut's deployed contracts; our own contracts have no third-party audit.

Protocol (proposed TAPs, bilingual, English authoritative)

  • TAP-20 service identity: a service is a circuit, its container is the address, the manifest lives at .well-known/tapeapi.json in the container's site, and the holder authorises a signing key with an EIP-712 delegation checked against the current holder.
  • TAP-21 signed response envelope with the TAPI-1/resp/v2 digest, bound to the container, the request id, the method and parameters, the outcome and the timestamp; canonical JSON; stable error codes.
  • TAP-22 metered payment: cumulative vouchers, per-provider escrow channels, session keys, a withdrawal cooldown, zero protocol fee and an optional voluntary contribution.
  • TAP-23 attested reads of other chains, TAP-24 intent RFQ (frozen), TAP-25 circuit-verified methods.
  • TAP-26 private channels between containers (mutual authentication, forward secrecy, ChaCha20-Poly1305) over relays or ChannelBus; TAP-27 private groups of up to 32 containers.

SDK (@tapeapi/sdk)

  • Resolution from a container or a circuit, with manifest integrity, delegation and processor checks through a quorum of RPC nodes that must agree.
  • call with envelope verification and price consent; callQuorum across independent providers pinned to one block.
  • Vouchers signed by a wallet or a session key, with meter resynchronisation.
  • Channels and groups; relay, ChannelBus and fan-in transports.
  • A ChannelBus reader that holds rather than skips: it copes with public nodes' history limits, result caps, empty or lagging answers and failures, reads over-full blocks from receipts, and reports every block it cannot read.
  • exposeTapeAPI: WebMCP tools for in-browser AI agents, with per-call and total budgets for paid methods.

Provider runtime (@tapeapi/server)

  • createProvider for Node (listen) and the Fetch API (handleRequest, Cloudflare Workers).
  • Signed answers and errors, voucher checks, per-consumer metering (shared D1 meter on Workers), rate limits.

Contracts

  • ChannelBus: stateless, ownerless event bus for channel frames.
  • TapeAPIEscrow and ServiceDirectory (not deployed).

Tooling

  • Examples: minimal reader, Web2 adapter, DeFi reads, attested cross-chain reads, relay service, Cloudflare Worker, WebMCP demo.
  • A black-box conformance suite for providers and relays.
  • The holder console at tapeapi.fun/console: go live, publish the manifest and deploy ChannelBus from a phone wallet.
  • Test vectors with an independent Python verifier; about 630 JavaScript tests and 169 Foundry tests.

[Unreleased]: https://github.com/BruceLanLan/tapeapi/compare/v0.1.0...HEAD [0.1.0]: https://github.com/BruceLanLan/tapeapi/releases/tag/v0.1.0

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