Spider Node

v0.11.1 has been deployed on testnet-2 Notable behavioral changes: - Staking - Reserve balance logic - EIP-7702 - Opcode repricing - Raised block gas limit from 150M to 200M (from 375Mgas/s to 500Mgas/s) - Dynamic base fee as per the Monad Initial Spec Proposal (MISP) + raise min basefee from 50 MON-gwei to 100 MON-gwei - Execution events SDK - EIP-2935 (historical block hashes in state) + blockhash buffer - EIP-7951: P256VERIFY precompile - Extend eth_call support for preStateTracer and stateDiffTracer with debug_traceCall Notable performance changes: - Relaxed merge validation - optimization to reduce number of re-executions - Kernel caching of db reads and writes - Improve RPC Db Node Cache and make it memory bounded This is a huge upgrade, and there's a lot more to say about each of these changes! Next stop: deployment on testnet (testnet-1)

Earlier this year, we launched Story mainnet, laying the foundation for a programmable IP economy. Since then, our engineering team has shipped major updates driving us closer to Chapter 2: becoming the AI-native infrastructure for IP. Our latest technical update ↓

visualized: the real time message passing of 186 nodes reaching consensus every 400ms they follow a leader to all --> all to all --> all to next leader path this is a live look of consensus happening around the globe, not a premade rendering

Smol shoutout to the engineers from Monad Foundation, Category Labs, and 186 node operators, who are preparing to upgrade testnet-2 in the next 12h When this upgrade lands on testnet-2, it'll be the first prod instance of tail-fork-resistant pipelined HotStuff and a bunch of other new tech MonadBFT is coming to life! After that, you should stop seeing pairs of missed slots (the typical sign of tail forking in pipelined consensus algorithms)