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Overview

This release introduces consensus participation incentives natively in the Algorand Protocol. Payout percentages, Min/Max Balance requirements, validator behavior thresholds, and more can be found here.

What's New

  • Ability for consensus participants to opt-in to incentives
  • Automatic heartbeat functionality to help well behaving incentive-eligible nodes stay online
  • Mimc opcodes to make it easier to build zero knowledge proof applications on Algorand

Protocol Upgrade

This release contains a protocol upgrade.

Changelog

Enhancements

  • AVM: new teal opcodes for the MiMC hash function to support Zero Knowledge Proofs (#5978)
  • Build(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.29.0 to 0.31.0 (#6203)
  • Catchpoints: Add onlineaccounts and onlineroundparamstail tables to snapshot files (#6177)
  • Consensus: Consensus version v40, set major release to 4 and reset minor. (#6207)
  • Eval: Feature/heartbeats (#6189)
  • Refactor: replace experimental maps and slices with stdlib (#6179)

Bugfixes

  • Doc: voter balance version fix (#6205)
  • Ledger: add callback to clear state between commitRound retries (#6190)

Other

  • Chore: fix some problematic function names (#6184)
  • Chore: fix some function name in comment (#6192)

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