Topic
Changes to a blockchain's rules or software, such as hard forks and scheduled mainnet activations, that node operators and infrastructure providers must adopt.
Pi Network requires node operators to upgrade by October 13, before Protocol 28 is scheduled to activate on October 16. Its stablecoin partnership with Open Standard has no Mainnet integration date, so the upgrade is the near-term event PI holders can check.
Reality
Transaction V1 went live on Solana mainnet at epoch 1035 with a 4,096-byte ceiling. Senders opt in and the older formats keep working, so the required updates fall on RPC providers, indexers and explorers.
Perspective Coverage
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The September 9 format change is optional for senders and mandatory for anyone parsing blocks, and the Jito bundle data Anza used to size it says a 4,096-byte ceiling absorbs between half and two thirds of the workloads that needed a workaround.
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The G7's report carries no binding force and never says the word crypto, arriving four months before the EU wants member states moving, and it pushes quantum readiness into government procurement, which is how the cost eventually reaches private custodians.
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Pasteur bundles a bridge signature-counting fix, a retired-key cleanup, and a pre-executed-block change that took testnet throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 TPS.
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