Network Research

Network Update Highlights, 11.23.22

Luke Streckenbach

Nov 23, 2022 • 1 min read

The Pine Street Labs team monitors blockchain networks for code changes, network upgrades, and security fixes. The aim of this research is to ensure safety and limited downtime for on-chain users across the ecosystem.

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This blog post provides an overview of the updates that have been made over the past week, with a particular emphasis on changes relevant to wallet operations.

Under each network header, releases are formatted as follows:

<Link to full release> (release date)
- Release highlight 1
- Release highlight 2
- ...

Note: Prerelease updates will be marked as "prerelease" between the link to the full release and the release date

Avalanche

Banff.3 - Tracing (11/18)

Adds Tracing Features
Increased soft cap on tx size limits for coreth
Added peer gossip tracker
Added avax.UTXOIDFromString helper to manage UTXOIDs more easily

Ethereum

Karanikomoru prerelease (11/19)

Consensus Specs alpha prerelease, preparation for the next wave of R&D testnets
Withdrawal related changes, including withdrawals without queues and addition of Gossip Topic bls_to_execution_change
Sharding and 4844 related changes

Solana

SPL Token CLI v2.2.0 (11/22)

Convert all token cli functionality to run through the new rust token client and remove transaction building and execution logic from the cli for all commands
Improve spl-token accounts to show accounts from both programs by default
Add support for a number of extensions
Infer program_id when possible from mints/accounts passed into cli commands
Breaking Change: --program-id is now restricted to spl_token::id() or spl_token_2022::id()

Testnet v1.14.8 prerelease (11/22)

Rolls out merkle shreds to ~20% of testnet
Fix client get_program_accounts_with_config calls with context

Cosmos SDK v0.46.6 (11/18)

Minor bug fixes and improvements

Juno

v11.0.3 (11/18)

Requires go v1.19+
Uses wasmd v0.29.2
Uses cosmos-sdk v0.45.11, tendermint v0.43.11, tendermint v0.34.23, iavl v0.19.4

Akash

v0.18.2-rc0 prerelease (11/22)

Bumps cosmos-sdk, tendermint, ibc-go