Prop 202: Stride v9 Cetus Release

This is a proposal to upgrade the chain to the v9.0.0 tag (Cetus Release) of the Stride codebase at block height ​​3,396,933 which is estimated to occur on Wednesday, April 26th 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:

-Autopilot channel verification

-Set epoch provisions in mint init genesis

-Add additional unit tests and safety checks

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/v9/bin/.

Details of Upgrade Time

The proposal targets the upgrade proposal block to be 3,396,933, anticipated to be on Wednesday, April 26th 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.