TechFlow reports that Hardhat Chad, developer of the Solana-based mining project ORE, has announced a significant protocol upgrade. One week after launching on mainnet, ORE will conduct its first contract adjustment. The epoch duration will be increased from 1 minute to 2 minutes to reduce volatility in reward rate adjustments. In ORE, an "epoch" refers to the time interval between reward rate adjustments. Extending the epoch duration will provide the contract with more data points for statistical calculations, helping to stabilize the reward rate.
Miners' experience remains unchanged—they will still earn ORE every minute—but the frequency of reset instruction calls will be halved. If necessary, the epoch duration may be further extended to 5 or even 10 minutes in the future. These changes are part of ORE's "hardening" process, aimed at optimizing the codebase and preparing for final contract freezing.
The ORE contract remains fully open-source, and the updated code has already been published on GitHub. Chad emphasized that the team will closely monitor the effects of this adjustment and make further optimizations as needed.
