Thread by @junhaotan_

The upcoming #Zilliqa V8 is a significant update and one of the largest update so far

1/5
1. ⬇️ block time from a peak of 40s to 29s.

This is made possible due to enhancements made at the consensus and transaction dispatching level (ZIP-14)

Shoutout to @GeorgePirlea

2/5

2. Payment transaction gas cost ⬆️ as per ZIP-18, which passed governance vote #gZIL -> More 🔥

3. Block reward parameter change to keep the inflation rate at a similar rate as #zilliqa V7 -> No Brrrrrrrr

3/5

Shipped with Scilla V0.10.0
- Remote state read - Allow you to read another smart contract state
- support "_origin" implicit transition parameter
- More builtins
- Supporting library functions for @PolyNetwork2 bridge integration

github.com/Zilliqa/scilla…

4/5

We have planned this release to be the penultimate release (barring any bugfix release) before cross-chain bridge support.

#Zilliqa #PoweredWithV8Engine

5/5

More information
1) Upgrade notice
dev.zilliqa.com/docs/dev/dev-u…

2) #Zilliqa V8 release note
github.com/Zilliqa/Zilliq…

3) #Scilla V0.10 release note
github.com/Zilliqa/scilla…