- Major optimization in consensus state machine: all peers process speculatively the proposed block, waiting for the signed header to be intercepted. When it is received, it will cause an immediately commitment of the state trie. This will cause the proposed block being processed in the same round was produced, yielding performance boost since all shard nodes will start the new round synced.
- Added a time.sleep each time a new pubsub publish is done. This is a temporary fix until the new pubsub publish feedback is ready to be used.
Note: This release should start with a new DB