A major upgrade is coming to Mina soon.
08 Sep 2023, 17:06
A major upgrade is coming to Mina soon 👀
TLDR — it’s bringing powerful ZK smart contracts to mainnet which will substantially increase community activity and products built using Mina.
Here is everything you need to know ↓
Key Features of the Upgrade:
➡️ Easier zkApp programmability with o1js – Previously “SnarkyJS”, a TypeScript library for writing ZK smart contracts.
➡️ Enhanced security and efficiency from Kimchi – a new proof system.
➡️ Removal of supercharged rewards – a temporary incentive to increase staking adoption at the earliest stages of mainnet.
These features were proposed and voted on by the Mina community, which is proudly powered by participants!
Testworld Mission 2.0. is underway to prepare for the upgrade.
The testnet is divided into 4 tracks. The first two tracks are complete.
✅ zkApp End-to-End (E2E) Testing
✅ External Security Auditing
➡️ Protocol & Performance Testing
➡️ Preparation for the Upcoming Upgrade
You can read about the latest updates here: /MinaProtocol/status/1696942777521643758
There has been a lot of great progress since mainnet including, but not limited to, @o1_labs ’ work on:
🟣 Adapting the recursive layer Pickles to Kimchi, allowing universality
🟣 Implemented zkApp transaction logic
🟣 Supporting changes to complementary modules as a consequence of zkApps
🟣 Enabling o1js frontend to support zkApps and bindings to the protocol and proof system layers
All of these, and other ecosystem work are covered in detail in the recent Road to Mina’s Upgrade Community Event.
Progress is accelerating.
Numerous contributors are working on incentivized testnet, the upgrade, and tasks needed post-upgrade.
This will be a team effort – everyone from node operators and developers to community creators and users is needed to help make the upgrade a success!
👋 Join the Discord to get involved: