Stride v34.1.0

v34.1.0 - 2026-09-18

This release supersedes v34.0.0 for the v34 upgrade. It adds one more reconciliation to the same v34 upgrade handler; everything from v34.0.0 is included unchanged. Validators should build and install v34.1.0, not v34.0.0.

Upgrade Info – Proposal 284

Stride Proposal #284 seeks to upgrade the chain with the v34 upgrade handler at block height 40506004, which is estimated to occur on Wednesday Sep 23rd 2026 at 15:00 UTC. The binary to run for that upgrade is the v34.1.0 tag of the Stride codebase.

Because of the uncertainty in block times, please keep track of the Stride chain for a precise estimate.

Upgrade Features

• Swap POA validators (#1522). Removes Citadel.one and Cosmostation from the POA validator set and adds cosmosrescue and CitizenWeb3 at the same voting power. The outgoing validators are removed with a power-0 soft delete, so their accrued fees stay withdrawable. The stToken payout registry (utils/poa.go) is updated to match.

• Clean up stuck interchain queries (#1525). Resets the stuck SlashQueryInProgress flag on 12 cosmoshub-4 validators and deletes 30 interchain queries that timed out without ever receiving a response.

• Update governance params (#1525). Lowers quorum from 33.4% to 25% and lengthens the voting period from 3 days to 5 days. All other gov params are unchanged.

• Reconcile Injective delegations and unblock the stuck redemption sweep (#1526). Repeated closures of the injective-1 delegation ICA channel left tracked delegations out of sync with on-chain delegations and left redemption funds staked instead of liquid, which has caused the redemption sweep to fail every epoch. The upgrade reconciles the per-validator delegation records, queues a one-shot undelegation of the excess through the normal undelegation pipeline, and sweeps injective-1 redemptions one record at a time so that records covered by the liquid balance are paid out right away.

• Reconcile Celestia and Cosmos Hub delegations, correct the staketia delegated balance (#1527) — new in v34.1.0. The same class of channel closure on celestia left about 15,440 TIA staked by the delegation ICA that Stride never booked, with an equal amount of deposit records that could never complete because their coins were already staked. The upgrade books that stake onto the validators and retires the same amount of deposit records, so the stTIA redemption rate is unchanged. On cosmoshub-4 one LSM detokenization that executed on the Hub but was recorded as failed is closed out the same way (about 11 ATOM). Separately, the staketia module's record of the multisig's remaining delegated balance is corrected by about 40,077 TIA, a bookkeeping artifact of the v25 migration; this value is not part of the redemption rate and only governs when stTIA redemptions hand over from the multisig to the ICA. The Celestia step applies only if its delegation ICA channel is unchanged and has no unacknowledged packets at the upgrade block; otherwise it skips safely and the rest of the upgrade proceeds.

Getting Prepared for the Upgrade

As always, we recommend validators use 64GB of RAM. If you are unable to have 64GB of RAM, at a minimum have a total of 64GB of swap set to prevent out of memory errors.

We highly recommend upgrading with Cosmovisor. To do this, please manually build and copy the strided binary to:

$DAEMON_HOME/cosmovisor/upgrades/v34/bin/

In case anything concerning happens at upgrade time, we will notify all validators immediately on the #cc-announcements channel.