This minor release coincides with two new initiatives by Zilliqa Research:
- Non-Custodial Staking
- Phase 1 of Zilliqa's staking program allows delegators to directly deposit their stake in a smart contract
- Please refer to ZIP-11 for details
- Tokenomics Changes
- Mining rewards will be adjusted to accommodate more delegators in our staking program
- Minimum gas price will be doubled from 0.001 ZIL to 0.002 ZIL
- Please refer to ZIP-9 for details
This minor release contains the following notable features and bug fixes:
- Scilla version upgraded to v0.9.0
- Mining rewards (coinbase) updates for the Tokenomics changes (#2170)
- Minimum gas price updates for the Tokenomics changes (#2236)
- Doubled smart contract code size limit to 50kB (#2169)
- Configurable proxy mining timeout (#2158)
- New blacklisting approach for seed nodes (#2157)
- Bug fix for contract account cleanup in case of deployment failure (#2155)
- Bug fix for premature termination of proxy mining for DS difficulty (#2189)
- Minor changes around launching Scilla client (#2259)
- Addition of new field "TxnFees" to TxBlock header (#2187)
- Addition of dropped transaction (nonce too low) to
GetPendingTxnAPI (#2240) - Addition of dropped transaction (replaced by transaction with higher gas) to
GetPendingTxnAPI (#2153)