Avalanche (AVAX): Cortina upgrade complete

As promised, the Avalanche team has successfully completed the Cortina update. What an advantage for developers accustomed to making complex X-Chain transactions.

Cortina, now compatible with Avalanche Go v1.10.0

Last October, Avalanche went through an upgrade that saw support from Binance.

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Six months later, The Block revealed that the Proof-of-Stake blockchain has passed the cortina update on its main network. It took place on Tuesday April 25 at 11 a.m.Eastern time.

Thus, since yesterday, Cortina has become compatible with the latest version of Avalanche, GB v1.10.0. This update was manifested by the migration of X channel to Snowman++ consensus. The latter is similar to a single consensus.

Additionally, Cortina benefits developers for the following reasons:

  • it favors theintegration of Avalanche Warp Messaging (AWM);
  • and allows complex X-Chain transactions to be performed.

Cortina will be activated on the Avalanche Mainnet at 11 AM ET on Tuesday, April 25. [Il] includes protocol optimizations that are not compatible with < v1.10.0 versions. If you don't update to [email protected] before the activation time, your node will be unable to process new blocks and will be marked as offline by other nodes (which could jeopardize your rewards)”, specifies Patrick O’Grady on Medium.

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Cortina now compatible with Avalanche Go v1.10.0

Rush of delegates to the network

Long before the Cortina upgrade, Avalanche has already seen increase the number of its delegates. They were around 80,000 on the network on March 20.

Also, the number of UTXOs that they use as delegation fees has increased significantly. Without aggregation, the quantity of the UTXO will become difficult to manage.

Except that Cortina promises the revision of the distribution of these delegation costs for new validators.

Instead of sending a fee UTXO for each successful delegation period, fees are now aggregated for the entire validation period of a node and distributed when it is unstacked », underlines the same developer of Ava Labs.

Before continuing with this:

As the various developers on Avalanche started deploying more complex dApps, they expressed that 8M gas per block was not enough for their use case. Cortina increases the gas limit per block of the C chain to 15 million gas. To avoid increasing the amount of resources needed to validate the primary network, the gas target will remain unchanged at 15M gas per 10s. »

Since we are talking about updating Cortina on the latest version of Avalanche, we should also not forget that Ethreum recently successfully completed its hard fork Shapella.

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