Prop 165: Stride v8 Octans Release

This is a proposal to upgrade the chain to the v8.0.0 tag (Octans Release) of the Stride codebase at block height ​​3,009,003 which is estimated to occur on Thursday, March 30th 2023 at 12 UTC. Because of the uncertainty in block times, please keep track of the Stride chain for a precise estimate.

Upgrade Features

This upgrade adds the following features:

- Enables airdrop for zones with different coin types

- Loads Evmos airdrop (to be enabled April 3rd)

- New queries exposed

- Minor optimizations

Getting Prepared for the Upgrade

As always, we recommend validators use 64GB of RAM. If you are unable to have 64GB of RAM, at a minimum have a total of 64GB of swap set to prevent out of memory errors.

We highly recommend upgrading with Cosmovisor. To do this, please manually build & copy the strided binary to /cosmovisor/upgrades/v8/bin/.

Details of Upgrade Time

The proposal targets the upgrade proposal block to be 3,009,003, anticipated to be on Thursday, March 30th 2023 at 12 UTC. Because blocks can occur at irregular intervals, please keep an eye on the Stride chain for a precise upgrade time.

In case anything concerning happens at upgrade time, we will notify all validators immediately on the #validator-announcements channel on Discord and telegram.