Please note that this release is unable to run mainnet - and will display "mainnet is not supported" if attempted to run with a mainnet configuration.
This upgrade adds a contention limiter to the C-chain and P-chain, introduces a block based fee on the C-chain, and tunes some dynamic fee parameters on the C-chain.
The changes in the upgrade go into effect at 5 PM EDT, September 16th 2021 on the Fuji testnet. After Fuji is updated and verified, a mainnet compatible release will be published.
All Fuji nodes should upgrade before 5 PM EDT, September 16th 2021.
Upgrades
- Introduced Snowman++ on the P-chain and C-chain.
- Introduced mempool gossiping to the P-chain and C-chain using the VM<->VM communication layer.
- Added a block based fee to C-chain blocks.
- Set the minimum gas price to 25 nAVAX and the maximum gas price to 1000 nAVAX in the C-chain dynamic fee mechanism.
- Added metrics for the number of blocks built and the number of failed build block attempts.