TechFlow news: Celestia has announced an upcoming major upgrade named Lemongrass. This upgrade includes multiple consensus-layer changes such as cross-chain accounts, packet forwarding middleware, and the CIP-10 mechanism to simplify future upgrades. Celestia-app v2.0.0 will activate Lemongrass on the Arabica Devnet in August.
Following successful testing, the Mocha Testnet is also expected to undergo the upgrade in August. The Lemongrass upgrade for the Celestia mainnet beta is scheduled for early to mid-September. Additionally, technical changes to the data availability (DA) layer will be implemented, including blob data pruning (CIP-4) and the new message framework Shwap (CIP-19).
The Lemongrass hard fork encompasses multiple CIPs specified in CIP-17, including price execution (CIP-6), packet forwarding middleware (CIP-9), coordinated upgrades (CIP-10), cross-chain accounts (CIP-14), and disabling the Blobstream module (CIP-20). These updates aim to improve network efficiency, streamline architecture, and enhance interoperability with other blockchains.
