Next Community Call Today!
Join us for our monthly community call to discuss the latest developments in the TollGate project and the future of decentralized internet access.
This is a great opportunity to connect with the core team and other community members, ask questions, and share your ideas.
Date: Today, July 21, 2026
Time:
- Eastcoast USA: 8:00 am (08:00)
- Europe CET: 2:00 pm (14:00)
- Cobrador Island (Shanghai): 9:00 pm (21:00)
What we have been up to:
- v0.5.0 released! The Go backend went through three alpha cycles and shipped stable on July 3rd. Major security hardening: SSRF protection, DoS limits on all reads, RFC 1918 isolation blocking WiFi from upstream LAN, config file lockdown. New NIP-06 identity system derives IPv4, MAC, and BIP39 seed from merchant key. Lightning reliability fixes include quote persistence to disk, exponential backoff, and fuzzy mint URL matching.
- tollgate-rs Rust backend built from scratch into a working mesh payment routing system with metered forwarding, peer-to-peer balance accounting, bidirectional peering, drift detection, and a top-like TUI monitor. Docs for internet exit, GRE tunneling, and mesh architecture merged.
- ESP32 firmware now supports B2B ehash mining settlement with board-to-board mining through TollGate, dual-wallet config, and faucet clients. ESP32-C3 compatibility advancing for balloon deployments with local relay support re-enabled.
- TollGate Android app: full Cashu CDK wallet migration, WiFi-based TollGate discovery with auto-connect, gateway protocol on port 2121, and a complete pay flow with multi-mint auto-rebalance.
- LR2021 throughput reached 1500 kbps. Schematics completed with validated pin connections. GPS-enabled range testing firmware ready for outdoor tests.
- microFIPS mesh now has ESP-NOW transport compiling and flashing on ESP32-C3, Noise IK protocol with golden vector tests, and an LR2021 SPI driver with FLRC framing.
- Community highlight: a working MVP called fips-tollgate has been built, combining FIPS mesh and TollGate to let gateway operators charge for access to a FIPS mesh network using Cashu. Source on ngit.
- Captive portal polished with balance dashboard, DLEQ keyset rotation handling, session-expiry heartbeat, and graceful degradation for missing browser APIs.
- Protocol spec advanced: relay/bootstrap mode for multi-hop token chains, and multiple metrics (time + data) allowed simultaneously.
We will be discussing:
- The v0.5.0 release and what's next.
- Mesh networking progress across FIPS, LR2021, and ESP-NOW.
- Community contributions and how to get involved.
- Open Q&A session at the end.
The Call:
https://honey.hivetalk.org/meet/TollGate-Community-Call 
