🧵 Celestia Core Devs Call 35 highlights 🪷 v4 aka Lotus network upgrade hits Celestia Mainnet Beta on ~7/28 at height 6,680,339

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The biggest news from CDC 35: v4, aka the 🪷 Lotus upgrade, hits Mainnet Beta ~7/29 (height 6,680,339)! v4 brings: 1. Native TIA interop with Hyperlane for rollups & chains like Ethereum, Solana 2. 33% inflation cut (5% yr 1.5) 3. Locked staking rewards 4. No auto-claims

🧵 Celestia Core Devs Call 35 highlights! CIP updates (39 to review, 34/36 to last call, 38 amended for 8MB tx size), v4 mainnet activation in ~7 days (height 6,680,339), and v5 planning. Next call on 5 August.

I’m looking forward to this! This will be in English Ходять чутки, що @braveryandglory скоро матиме один українською мовою ™

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3 of the biggest Solana critiques recently were: - extractive sandwich attacks - institutions/apps want control over sequencing for UX and MEV - hard to build onchain CLOBs due to sequencing this solves all of them — in one shot I can not overstate how big this is

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