The VM had no factory, so the only way to build it was the literal in the
plugin entrypoint. That kept the D-Chain reachable exactly one way — as an
execed binary — and left the node unable to register it beside the chains it
links, which is why luxd came up without a D-Chain at all.
Factory is now the one constructor: the node registers it in-process and the
plugin entrypoint builds through it before handing the VM to rpc.Serve. VMID
moves in beside it so the chain and the id it answers to cannot drift apart.
dexd is now the ONLY command in the repo. One binary, two run modes:
dexd run as a luxd rpcchainvm PLUGIN. luxd execs the plugin from
dexd plugin its PluginDir with NO positional args (engine address arrives
via the runtime.EngineAddressKey env var) and probes the
version with `dexd version`. No-subcommand == plugin is
REQUIRED to preserve that contract — byte-for-byte the old
cmd/dchain behavior (rpc.Serve over the plugin transport).
dexd run run the STANDALONE D-Chain venue: open the on-disk zapdb,
dexd standalone serve the frozen dex_* surface over ZAP, and drive the
consensus sealer loop (WaitForEvent->BuildBlock->Verify->
Accept). -addr/-db flags preserved from the old cmd/dvenue.
Relocated logic (engine code NOT duplicated — pkg/dchain + pkg/lx untouched):
cmd/dchain/{main,runner} -> internal/plugin (plugin.Run)
cmd/dvenue/{main,engine_*} -> internal/standalone (standalone.Run + engineName)
cmd/dexd/main.go = thin run-mode dispatcher
Removed cmd dirs (12): dchain, dvenue, demo, dex-api-server, dex-server,
dexfillproof, dexseed, fix-gateway, gateway, monitor, persistent-server,
price-feed. Removed committed build artifacts: gateway, dex-server-linux.
Build/ship ONLY dexd:
- Dockerfile: canonical CPU image (CGO=0, ghcr.io/luxfi/dex) running
`dexd run`; no GPU/MLX required.
- Dockerfile.dvenue: GPU operator bundle repointed cmd/dvenue -> cmd/dexd.
- Deleted Dockerfile.{gateway,devnet,minimal,dvenue-cpu} and
docker/{Dockerfile,Dockerfile.cuda,backend/Dockerfile,compose-simple.yml}.
- Makefile rewritten to build/run/ship dexd only.
- docker.yml: dropped the dex-gateway image; dex-venue-image.yml: dvenue->dexd.
- Deleted legacy scripts that built removed/long-gone cmds; fixed deploy.sh +
dev-setup.sh; .gitignore ignores root build binaries.
Also included (coupled, environment-applied, settled): the in-progress
clob -> dex/orderbook terminology refactor across pkg/* + sdk/* + tests/*
(identifier + file renames, e.g. RegisterCLOB->RegisterDEX,
source_clob.go->source_orderbook.go). The relocated standalone venue calls the
renamed API, so it lands in the same consistent snapshot.
Verified (GOWORK=off CGO_ENABLED=0): `go build ./cmd/dexd`, `go build ./...`,
`go vet ./...` all exit 0; `go test ./pkg/dchain` (renamed RegisterDEX socket
path) green. GPU/cgo path not compiled locally (no CUDA); its rename mirrors
the verified nocgo twins and preserves the C ABI symbol names.
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