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Arena CTF Platform - Development Status
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COMPLETED
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Backend API:
- User registration, login, email verification, password reset
- JWT authentication with refresh tokens
- User profiles with bio, avatar, country
- Team system (create, join, leave, invite, kick members)
- Machine management (CRUD, filtering by difficulty/OS/status)
- VM instance spawning and destruction via libvirt
- Dynamic flag generation per instance (anti-cheat)
- Flag submission and validation with points
- Rankings and leaderboards (global, country, teams)
- Admin panel endpoints (user/team/machine management)
- 40+ REST endpoints total

Frontend:
- Registration page
- Login page
- Email verification page
- Password reset request page
- Password reset page
- Basic routing and auth state management

Infrastructure:
- KVM/libvirt VM management (spawn, stop, cleanup)
- QCOW2 copy-on-write disk overlays
- WireGuard VPN peer management
- VPN config file generation
- Separate networks for free/VIP tiers
- PostgreSQL schema (21 tables, indexes, partitions, materialized views)

IN DEVELOPMENT
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Frontend Rust Yew (priority):
- Dashboard showing user machines and progress
- Machine browser with search/filter
- Instance management UI (start/stop VMs)
- Flag submission interface
- Leaderboard display
- User profile pages
- Team management UI
- Admin panel UI

Backend Rust AXUM:
- Background job for auto-stopping expired instances
- Background job for disk cleanup
- Challenges system (schema exists, routes not done)
- Badge awarding automation
- Activity feed population

Infrastructure:
- Automatic WireGuard peer cleanup on VM stop
- VM health checks
- Rate limiting middleware

NOT STARTED
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- Certificate PDF generation
- Payment/subscription integration
- Matrix/Fediverse chat integration
- Machine ratings UI
- Notifications system UI


ALPHA TESTING
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- Looking for testers
- Lookking for people to do some vulnerable boxes with recent vulns, I can teach.


Happy Hacking
ReK2
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