- Lemongrass hard fork (CIP-17) final release expected by end of week, to be deployed on Arabica testnet in early August
- CIP-21 (blob with verified signers) in Last Call stage, integration with celestia-app in progress
- CIP-22 (remove
IndexWrapper) moved to review status, discussion on potential impacts
- CIP-23 (coordinated prevote time) introduced to solve inconsistent block times, prototype expected in 1-2 weeks
- Celestia state machine v3 to include author blobs and delayed voting features, with potential upgrade system refactor
- Final release of celestia-app v2.0.0 expected by end of week
- To be incorporated into celestia-node v0.16.0 (tentative)
- Deployment timeline (tentative):
- Arabica testnet: Early August
- Mocha testnet: Mid August
- Mainnet: Late August (assuming no bugs)
- Services running on Celestia urged to deploy to Arabica and Mocha testnets for compatibility testing
- First release candidate of go-square cut
- Integration with celestia-app started, expected to complete in 1-2 weeks
- QA testing to follow, likely to undergo audits
- CIP-21 to be moved to Last Call stage, pending preliminary QA before moving to Final
- CIP-22 moved to review status with updated specification
- Benefits:
- Makes PFB transaction deterministic
- Simplifies square construction
- Prerequisite for future features like hash blocks of squares
- Potential impacts on SDK parsing logic discussed
- Evan suggested exploring implications for square layout and fraud proofs
- CIP-23 introduced to address inconsistent block times
- Proposes delaying pre-vote until end of timeout propose
- Aims to provide finality on a regular cadence
- Prototype expected in 1-2 weeks
- Informal Systems to be involved in auditing
- Confirmed features:
- Potential inclusion:
- Refactor of upgrade system for Cosmos SDK compatibility
- Meta CIP for v3 features to be written and discussed in next call
- v3 upgrade planned to follow shortly after Lemongrass hard fork