Thread by @maqstik

@zilliqa just completed a network upgrade. Five key improvements that platform users, miner and developers can expect after this release:

1⃣ Transactions can now be "soft-confirmed", as soon as they are processed within a shard. It will reduce the visible latency.

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2⃣ A new feature to allow tracking of transaction status. Users can now check whether their transaction was dispatched to the network, soft-confirmed, confirmed, or rejected. No more "Oops! The transaction could not be found on viewblock."

3⃣ A new governance mechanism for miners. Miners can now vote on proposals by attaching votes to their Proof-of-Work (PoW) submissions. This is in addition to the $gZIL governance.

4⃣ The protocol will de-prioritize guard nodes during consensus to increase participation rate of community nodes. Release of shard leadership to community (i.e., non-guard) miner nodes.

5⃣ For dapp developers, the simulated testing environment aka Isolated Server now supports web sockets.