Kava v0.21.0 Upgrade

This proposal will allow Kava to roll out new features for the community pool and inflation rate, plus additional improvements to the Kava EVM.

This guide assumes that you use cosmovisor to manage upgrades. If you do not use cosmovisor, please adjust some commands accordingly.

The upgrade is scheduled for Block 3607200. It is estimated to take place 1 year ago. A countdown clock is here. The governance proposal is here.

Install New Binary

cd kava
git pull
git checkout v0.21.0
make install

Check Version

# should be 0.21.0
kava version

# Should be commit 357ec96338a4c4fa4624560f1182bf85cc068009
kava version --long | grep commit

Make Cosmovisor Directory and Copy Binary

mkdir -p $HOME/.kava/cosmovisor/upgrades/v0.21.0/bin
cp $HOME/go/bin/kava $HOME/.kava/cosmovisor/upgrades/v0.21.0/bin

Check Version Again

# should be 0.21.0
$HOME/.kava/cosmovisor/upgrades/v0.21.0/bin/kava version