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REMINDER WARNING:
The Hatchling Paloma Network of “Messenger” (v1.8.0) is still young, and its Cosmwasm and EVM contracts are still unaudited. The GRAIN token is launched but not yet trading on any exchanges. Although the flock is flying on the
messenger
mainnet, it is still subject to the continued development of Paloma’s cross-chain messaging system as well as to the security guarantees offered by the GRAIN token. We expect “Messenger” to experience weekly chain halts and chain restarts to upgrade. We also expect numerous undiscovered vulnerabilities. We also do not control nor influence the price of GRAINs. The community will strive to preserve stated but considers this mainnet high-risk. Proceed with caution.
The Paloma flock is now running the fully functional and upgraded bridge on Paloma v1.8.2. In addition, new features in Pigeon v1.8.2 aim to address a number of validator issues, including fixes for the Paloma bridge and additional logging for pigeon jailing and keep alives. Paloma now continues to improve in order to handle higher relay volumes and launch its Pigeon Feed marketplace. Below are some of the key updates.
Paloma’s gravity bridge is now deployed to
messenger
mainnet after testing on Testnet and we continue to test the following first-release features:
Additionally, the flock of Paloma community voted to approve the GRAIN ERC-20 token that would be the template token copied by the Compass-EVM. The details of the Paloma ERC-20 token design, and vote, are available here:
Paloma now hosts the Arbitrum-geth client as the ethereum client for Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum. Amazing work done by the Volume team now allows one GETH client to handle multiple L2 and Ethereum L1s. Paloma pigeons. Upgrades to Arbitrum GETH will push new updates to Paloma’s Arbitrum GETH client so the Volume team will monitor upgrades on Arbitrum. Validators will be invited to deploy Compass-EVM on arbitrum as more bots are designed for Arbitrum deployment on DEXes such as Uniswap v3 on Arbitrum.
Pigeon now comes with a number of improvements to ease validator pain around relay activities and the ongoing issue around constant jailing for pigeons not being active
Stay up to date and follow the Paloma public repositories and the commits of ongoing upgrades to Paloma Cosmos-SDK blockchain and the Pigeon relay module, here:
Pigeon racing is an International sport with the Belgian & Netherlands Racing Pigeons as the recognised bloodlines in racing olympic racing pigeons. Belgian and Netherlands bloodlines are proven over decades to be winners and the best olympic racing pigeons have come from both Bloodlines. Belgians have long stood out as the best breeders, both because of their generations-long experience and the density of a network where many breeders can organize races close together. It’s not a short-term endeavor, however, since becoming expert at genetic breeding with the constant mixing and mating of birds takes years, if not decades. Belgian Racing pigeons can live up to 15 years.
We have more work to deliver a stable and robust relay system with Gravity Bridge. This update highlights those new changes that will include less jailing of validator pigeons and more reliable relaying with Paloma’s Gravity bridge. Paloma is also now Arbitrum-ready and will invite the validator community to deploy Compass-EVM contracts to the Arbitrum network. Arbitrum availability will be critical for decentralized application execution on Arbitrum network.
Thank you to all the pigeon validators on the Paloma network, the Paloma community, and Palomabot uses. Let’s continue to fly and fly fast.
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