According to ChainCatcher, The Block reported that Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake proposed a new consensus layer upgrade called "Beam Chain" at the Devcon conference, which the community refers to as "Ethereum 3.0."The proposal aims to achieve faster block times, lower validator staking requirements, "on-chain snarkification," and improvements in quantum security. The core of Beam Chain lies in the introduction of technologies such as zkVM, significantly enhancing the scalability of the Ethereum mainnet without relying on Layer 2 solutions. Doug Colkitt, founder of Ambient Finance, stated that the localization of zkEVM could completely eliminate gas limits, allowing nodes to only verify snarks, theoretically achieving infinite scalability for L1.Nevertheless, the proposal may lead to further centralization of block building. Drake emphasized that the final implementation of Beam Chain requires community consensus and called it his "most ambitious proposal to date." He previously resigned from his advisory position due to potential conflicts of interest with EigenLayer.

ChainCatcher news indicates that according to Optimism governance information, OP Labs protocol engineer Mofi has released an upgrade proposal called Granite Network Upgrade. This proposal aims to address security vulnerabilities identified in a series of third-party security audits conducted by Spearbit, Cantina, and Code4 rena. The related vulnerabilities have not been exploited, and user assets have never been at risk. The proposal states that this upgrade will include a series of smart contract upgrades to fix the vulnerabilities found in the audits, as well as an L2 hard fork to enhance the stability and performance of the error prevention system. A permissioned rollback mechanism has been initiated as a precaution to avoid any potential instability during the vulnerability patching process.If the proposal is approved by vote, the Granite Network Upgrade is scheduled to take place on September 10 at 16:00 UTC. This upgrade has been coordinated with Base and Conduit to launch on the internal development network and Sepolia Superchain.

ChainCatcher news, the official governance page shows that the Vite Network community has voted to approve the "slashing" hard fork upgrade proposal.This hard fork mainly targets the VITE consensus layer. When the local time of an sbp node is inaccurate, it will be unable to participate in block production, thereby reducing the likelihood of malicious nodes acting out and improving the stability of the VITE network.

ChainCatcher message, the voting for the Injective tokenomics upgrade proposal INJ 3.0 has begun. This proposal aims to reduce the issuance of new INJ by decreasing on-chain parameters, making it a more deflationary crypto asset than ever before. The proposal plans to gradually lower the INJ inflation rate over two years and increase responsiveness to staking activities, making INJ a more inflation-resistant crypto asset. Voting will end on April 23.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Tezos blockchain validators will vote on the newly released protocol upgrade proposal, which aims to reduce the network block confirmation time to 10 seconds and activate DAL to improve throughput and L2 scalability.

ChainCatcher news, Trader Joe has launched a DEX specifically for the Mantle Network. The official Merchant Moe announced on social media that it has initiated a proposal for MOE staking upgrades, which will reward stakers with mETH (Mantle Network LSD ETH token).It is reported that this upgrade aims to strengthen and incentivize MOE staking.

ChainCatcher news, the community of the Cosmos ecosystem smart contract platform Injective is voting on the Avalon mainnet upgrade proposal, which will optimize L1 scalability, sub-second block times, and PoS delegation transformation.It is reported that the current support rate for the proposal is 99.61%, and the number of voters has reached the effective threshold. Voting will end on June 1. If the vote passes, the upgrade is expected to take place later this week. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, the Terra Classic L1 Joint Task Force (L1JTF) team has upgraded the rebel-2 testnet to version 2.0.0. This upgrade uses Cosmos SDK v0.45 and introduces several new features to enhance its functionality and security. The Terra Classic community also supports the promotion of the revitalization plan for this project.The team's part-time developer Till stated that this could facilitate the transition of the Terra Classic mainnet to version 2.0.0. He revealed that only six validators (including takeBin, Lunanauts, Allnodes) participated and successfully upgraded. Some enthusiasts of the project (such as reXx) expressed concerns about the number of validators involved in the development, pointing out that the number should reach 30. After the successful upgrade of the testnet, L1 team project manager LuncBurnArmy has submitted a proposal to upgrade the Terra Core mainnet to version 2.0.0. (source link)

ChainCatcher message, the Optimism community governance page shows: A new version of the upgrade proposal for the Ethereum Layer 2 solution Optimism mainnet Bedrock (i.e., version V2) has been released. This upgrade aims to provide modularity, simplicity, and Ethereum equivalence for the L2 network, positively impacting performance and security.It is reported that the Regolith Goerli hard fork will be activated around 7:00 PM (UTC) on March 17, 2023, at the designated block time on Optimism Goerli. If the proposal passes and all conditions are met, it will upgrade to Bedrock. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Cosmos Hub tweeted that the v9 Lambda upgrade proposal has been voted through with a support rate of 99.48%. The v9 Lambda upgrade will take place on March 15.According to the proposal, this upgrade aims to activate the Replicated Security feature, which will enforce good operating rules for Inter-Chain Security (ICS). The Replicated Security feature allows the security of Cosmos Hub to be replicated to consumer chains and monitors compliance with the rules, enabling consumer chains to benefit from the security of Cosmos Hub. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the PlatON privacy computing network has announced the mainnet optimization upgrade proposal for version 1.3.0, which is expected to start governance upgrade voting on October 25, 2022.It is reported that the main updates for version 1.3.0 include: 1. The tokens for delegation withdrawal will be locked for 7 days; 2. The chain ID change proposal PIP-7 has completed the implementation of the final stage, and the chain ID obtained using the chainid instruction or directly using the block.chainid instruction will no longer be the old value 100, but will return the new value 210425. (source link)