Celestia’s first upgrade, Lemongrass, is coming. 🍵

Developed and coordinated with the community, Lemongrass delivers 1-click Tia interactions with other IBC chains, Interchain accounts, and other consensus layer upgrades.

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The Lemongrass upgrade will introduce several features:

1️⃣ CIP-6: Price enforcement
2️⃣ CIP-9: Packet Forward Middleware
3️⃣ CIP-10: Coordinated upgrades
4️⃣ CIP-14: Interchain accounts
5️⃣ CIP-20: Disable old Blobstream module

Read summaries for each CIP, what they mean for the community, and more details related to Lemongrass. ⬇️

Read summaries for each CIP, what they mean for the community, and more details related to Lemongrass. ⬇️
https://blog.celestia.org/lemongrass-celestias-first/

Finally, Celestia Mainnet Beta will have a version for Lemongrass, estimated to be in early to mid-September.

Activation for Lemongrass on Mainnet Beta will then occur via community coordination.

Timelines 🗓️

The release of celestia-app v2.0.0 will be used to activate Lemongrass on Arabica Devnet in August.

Mocha Testnet will then be upgraded with community coordination following successful activation and testing.