https://argusnodes.com/updates New chain pages, network changes from official docs, offers and write-ups from Argusnodes, the dedicated RPC node provider. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:43:06 GMT https://argusnodes.com/dedicated-rpc-node 2026-10-23:site:Dedicated RPC node page Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site One page for the dedicated RPC node offer: how it works, what every node includes, the cities, and a quote form for any chain, answered within the hour. https://argusnodes.com/chains/lisk 2026-10-21:chain:Lisk page Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Lisk RPC nodes (chain ID 1135), the OP Stack layer 2, on op-reth with full and archive nodes, priced per city. https://argusnodes.com/chains/theta 2026-10-21:chain:Theta page Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Theta RPC nodes (EVM chain ID 361), the Theta node with its ETH RPC adaptor, priced per city. https://argusnodes.com/chains/arbitrum-nova 2026-10-20:chain:Arbitrum Nova page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Arbitrum Nova RPC nodes (chain ID 42170), the AnyTrust chain of Arbitrum, on Nitro with full and archive nodes, priced per city. https://argusnodes.com/chains/peaq 2026-10-20:chain:peaq page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated peaq RPC nodes (EVM chain ID 3338), with Substrate and Ethereum JSON-RPC, priced per city; agung testnet linked. https://argusnodes.com/chains/lens 2026-10-20:chain:Lens Chain page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Lens Chain RPC nodes (chain ID 232) on the ZKsync external node, priced per city; Lens Chain Testnet linked. https://argusnodes.com/chains/wemix 2026-10-20:chain:WEMIX3.0 page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated WEMIX3.0 RPC nodes (chain ID 1111) on gwemix, priced per city; testnet linked. https://argusnodes.com/chains/bitlayer 2026-10-20:chain:Bitlayer page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Bitlayer RPC nodes (chain ID 200901), the EVM Bitcoin layer 2, priced per city. https://argusnodes.com/chains/taiko 2026-10-20:chain:Taiko page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Taiko Alethia RPC nodes (chain ID 167000), the based rollup on Ethereum, priced per city; Taiko Hoodi testnet linked. https://argusnodes.com/chains/ethereum-classic 2026-10-20:chain:Ethereum Classic page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Ethereum Classic RPC nodes (chain ID 61) on Core-Geth, priced per city; Mordor testnet linked. https://argusnodes.com/chains/polkadot 2026-10-20:chain:Polkadot page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Polkadot relay-chain RPC nodes, priced per city, built to Polkadot's reference hardware; Polkadot Hub nodes on request. https://argusnodes.com/chains/kusama 2026-10-20:chain:Kusama page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Kusama RPC nodes on the same polkadot binary, priced per city; Kusama Hub nodes on request. https://argusnodes.com/chains/moonbeam 2026-10-20:chain:Moonbeam page Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dedicated Moonbeam RPC nodes (chain ID 1284), Ethereum-compatible JSON-RPC and WebSocket on Polkadot, priced per city. https://argusnodes.com/chains 2026-10-18:site:Order any chain directly, in 18 cities Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Every chain page now shows the price of its node in each city. Pick a city with a price and pay with just your email and a one-time code; pick any other and the same button asks for a quote, answered within the hour. https://argusnodes.com/pricing 2026-10-18:offer:Every chain priced from its own hardware spec Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Offer Each chain now has its own starting price, set by the hardware its official docs call for with headroom on top, and fixed-price nodes are priced per city. Archive nodes are priced wherever the chain documents archive sizing. Nodes in 18 cities, any other on request. https://argusnodes.com/pricing 2026-10-18:offer:Pay quarterly or annually and save Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Offer Every fixed-price node can now be paid every 3 months at 5% off or every 12 months at 10% off, at checkout or later from the node page. Clients can also move a running node to another plan: upgrades are prorated, downgrades apply from the next term. https://argusnodes.com/chains/ethereum#configure 2026-10-17:site:Order and pay for a node directly Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Fixed-price nodes now have a Pay and deploy button: pick the node, create your account, pay in crypto. An engineer picks up the order within the hour and emails a go-live estimate. Validators, other chains and your own servers stay on a quote. https://argusnodes.com/pricing 2026-10-17:offer:Fixed-price nodes for the most-deployed chains Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Offer Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, BSC, Polygon and Robinhood Chain now have published monthly prices per node (Base, Bot / MEV, Archive), from $139.76/mo for Ethereum. Every other chain keeps its band. https://argusnodes.com/ 2026-10-17:site:New site design Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site A new look across every page: editorial headlines, blue gradient heroes, rounded cards, and published prices first. https://argusnodes.com/pricing 2026-09-18:site:Quick nav on the long pages Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Chain pages, the homepage, pricing, the comparisons and the other long pages now carry a bar of section links under the header, so you can jump straight to the part you came for. https://argusnodes.com/chains/polygon#public-rpc 2026-09-18:site:Public RPC URLs on every EVM chain page Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Each EVM chain page now lists the public RPC URLs from the chain registry that answered our chain ID check, each with a copy button. The check runs again every week. https://argusnodes.com/chains/polygon 2026-09-17:site:Chain pages retitled around the RPC phrase Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Every chain page now leads with "{chain} RPC" in its title and heading, answers "What is the {chain} RPC URL?" and, on EVM chains, "How do I add {chain} to MetaMask with my own RPC URL?". Dedicated stays what we sell; it is no longer the keyword. https://argusnodes.com/updates/stablecoin-native-l1s-compared 2026-09-16:post:Stablecoin-native L1s compared for node operators: Arc, Stable, Plasma and Tempo Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Post Four Layer-1s built around stablecoins launched within a year of each other. This is the comparison from the operator's chair: chain IDs, gas tokens, consensus, what node types exist, the hardware each chain's docs ask for, and what a dedicated node costs. https://argusnodes.com/updates/arc-mainnet-dedicated-rpc-nodes 2026-09-16:post:Arc mainnet is live: what a dedicated Arc node looks like on day one Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Post Circle's Arc launched its public mainnet on 16 September 2026. Here is what the network is, what you can run on it, the hardware Arc's own docs ask for, and what a dedicated Arc node costs. https://argusnodes.com/chains/arc 2026-09-16:chain:Arc mainnet page Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Arc moved from testnet to mainnet on our side the day Circle launched it: chain ID 5042, USDC gas, dedicated full and archive nodes from $199/mo. https://argusnodes.com/chains/giwa 2026-09-16:chain:GIWA page Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Dunamu (Upbit) OP Stack L2. Nodes on GIWA Sepolia today, mainnet on launch day, from $99/mo. https://argusnodes.com/chains/ethereum#pricing 2026-09-16:site:Pricing cards on every chain page Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Full, archive and validator prices side by side above the configurator, each card opening the configurator with that node type picked. https://t.me/argusnodes_channel 2026-09-16:site:Telegram channel Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site New chain pages, offers and weekly network changes now post to @argusnodes_channel automatically. https://argusnodes.com/chains/arc 2026-09-16:change:Arc Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Arc mainnet went live on 16 September 2026 with more than 100 institutional and ecosystem builders on day one, an 11-member founding validator cohort and USDC as the gas token; Circle names Alchemy, Blockdaemon, Chainlink, Figment, Kaleido and QuickNode among the launch infrastructure providers. https://argusnodes.com/chains/gno-land 2026-09-10:chain:Gno.land page Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Beta Mainnet (gnoland1) nodes from $99/mo; the gnoland-1 mainnet is not launchable yet. https://argusnodes.com/chains/robinhood-chain 2026-09-10:offer:Robinhood Chain promoted Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Offer First in the Chains menu and on the homepage: dedicated Robinhood Chain RPC nodes from $199/mo. https://argusnodes.com/#price 2026-09-10:site:Homepage price picker Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Pick any researched chain and node type on the homepage and see the starting price before talking to anyone. https://argusnodes.com/vs/getblock 2026-09-10:site:GetBlock comparison Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site GetBlock added as the seventh provider in every comparison table, read from its own pages. https://argusnodes.com/pricing 2026-08-28:offer:STANDARD band at $199 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Offer Every chain that was $349 moved to $199/mo starting, Solana excepted. Four bands: $99, $199, archive from $799, Solana class $999. https://argusnodes.com/chains 2026-08-28:site:Full chain index Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Site Every network alive on its own chain ID in the canonical registry now has a page, priced on the same flat terms. https://argusnodes.com/chains/arc 2026-08-28:change:Arc Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change arc-node v0.8.0 (28 August 2026) is mandatory: Zero8 activated on testnet at 2026-09-03 15:00 UTC and Zero7/Zero8 on mainnet at 2026-09-10 15:00 UTC. It moves to reth 2.2 with Storage V2 snapshots, disables admin RPC routes by default (--rpc.admin to enable), makes arc-snapshots download take explicit --chain and --el-profile flags, and deprecates the separate-host EL/CL RPC transport ahead of removal in v0.9.0. https://argusnodes.com/chains/megaeth 2026-08-25:change:MegaETH Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Mainnet has taken frequent hardforks in 2026 (Rex2 4 Feb, Rex3 21 Feb, Rex4 20 Apr, Rex5 5 Jun) and Rex6 is scheduled for 25 August 2026 03:00 UTC; Rex7 is unscheduled. https://argusnodes.com/chains/igra 2026-08-24:change:Igra Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Attesters stake a minimum of 400,000 IGRA permissionlessly, with slashing of 1/16 of stake only for provable fraud; the attester staking lock's intended unlock date is 24 August 2026. https://argusnodes.com/chains/adi 2026-08-22:change:ADI Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Mainnet docs list ERC-7702, ERC-4844 and debug_traceCall with custom tracers as unsupported; the chain was producing blocks (height 1,004,563) on 22 August 2026. https://argusnodes.com/chains/aura-network 2026-08-22:change:Aura Network Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The official docs site docs.aura.network has been returning HTTP 525 (SSL handshake failure) as of 2026-08-22; the documentation source remains readable in the aura-nw/docs GitHub repo, last updated 2025-02-24. https://argusnodes.com/chains/dexalot 2026-08-22:change:Dexalot Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The Dexalot subnet (chain 432204) is live and producing blocks: the official RPC returned block 72,431,093 on 2026-08-22, and the docs repo was last updated Jun 3, 2026. https://argusnodes.com/chains/eni 2026-08-22:change:ENI Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Mainnet is live: the official RPC returned chain ID 173 and block 37,120,983 on 2026-08-22. https://argusnodes.com/chains/firo 2026-08-22:change:Firo Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The client is actively maintained (repository pushed August 22, 2026). https://argusnodes.com/chains/gatelayer 2026-08-22:change:GateLayer Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change No official hardware figures exist beyond 'typically 1-5 TB' of disk for archive mode; mainnet was producing blocks (height 29,317,227) on 22 August 2026. https://argusnodes.com/chains/terra 2026-08-22:change:Terra Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The former official endpoints phoenix-lcd.terra.dev and phoenix-rpc.terra.dev now redirect to lcd-terra.tfl.foundation / rpc-terra.tfl.foundation, which returned 'No provider found to serve this request' on 2026-08-22, and a 'Terra Node Syncing Issue' opened January 2026 is still open; confirm chain liveness with the founder before listing. https://argusnodes.com/chains/warden 2026-08-22:change:Warden Protocol Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Mainnet (warden_8765-1) is live: the official RPC reported height 10,106,755 on 2026-08-22 running CometBFT 0.38.19, and the chain was upgraded to wardend v1.0.1 at block 5,418,000 in March 2026 (v1.0.0 tagged March 3, 2026; v1.0.1 tagged March 23, 2026). https://argusnodes.com/chains/xpr-network 2026-08-22:change:XPR Network Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Mainnet is live (chain 384da888...437e0, head block advancing 2026-08-22) with 21 active producers; docs.xprnetwork.org carries no node-operator section, so node setup relies on the xpr.start repo. https://argusnodes.com/chains/bifrost-polkadot 2026-08-21:change:Bifrost (Polkadot) Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The Bifrost source repository linked from the collator docs (github.com/bifrost-io/bifrost, binary bifrost-v0.15.0) now returns 404; runtime releases continue in github.com/bifrost-io/bifrost-release, most recently bifrost-v0.25.4 on 21 August 2026 (low-priority upgrade, runtime 25004 for Bifrost Polkadot, Kusama and Paseo). https://argusnodes.com/chains/cardano 2026-08-21:change:Cardano Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change UTxO-HD is now mandatory: node 10.4.1 integrated UTxO-HD (in-memory or LMDB on-disk backend), 10.7.0 added the LSM-tree on-disk backend, and 11.1.0 (pre-release 2026-08-21) removes the V1 LedgerDB and LMDB backend and the legacy tracing system, so LMDB users must switch backends and migrate tracing config. https://argusnodes.com/chains/cosmos-hub 2026-08-21:change:Cosmos Hub Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Gaia v28.0.0 (pre-release tagged 21 August 2026) removes the Interchain Security provider module entirely; the upgrade handler sets staking max_validators to the former max_provider_consensus_validators. https://argusnodes.com/chains/etherlink 2026-08-21:change:Etherlink Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Ganesha 7.0 activated on 21 August 2026, adding the Michelson interface and Native Atomic Composability; it requires octez-evm-node 0.64 or later (released 30 July 2026). https://argusnodes.com/chains/tempo 2026-08-21:change:Tempo Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Tempo ships required hardforks on a bi-weekly to monthly cadence with at least 7 days' mainnet notice; T1 through T10 (v1.1.1 to v1.13.0) activated between February 12 and August 21, 2026, and consensus-breaking upgrades are mandatory. https://argusnodes.com/chains/adi 2026-08-20:change:ADI Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change On 20 August 2026 at 15:00 UTC ADI mainnet (testnet on 18 August) switched to a new P2P (devp2p) protocol; external nodes still on the old HTTP-replay version stopped syncing and must run v0.20.12, which replaces HTTP replay with P2P (port 3060 TCP+UDP), removes the proof-sync sidecar and needs an updated genesis file. https://argusnodes.com/chains/boba 2026-08-20:change:Boba Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Isthmus (20 August 2026) and Jovian (25 August 2026) activate on Boba Sepolia with mandatory op-node v1.19.0 / op-reth v2.3.1 and runtime chain-spec files; Boba Mainnet dates are not yet scheduled. https://argusnodes.com/chains/canton 2026-08-20:change:Canton Network Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Splice 0.7.4 (tagged 20 August 2026) upgrades the bundled Canton to 3.5.14; validators are expected to stay current with network versions. https://argusnodes.com/chains/filecoin 2026-08-20:change:Filecoin Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Forest ships frequently (v0.36.0 on 20 August 2026) and Venus remains active (v1.20.0, 18 May 2026), so all three listed clients are maintained as of August 2026. https://argusnodes.com/chains/nibiru 2026-08-20:change:Nibiru Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Hotfix v2.18.1 (2026-08-20) is a mainnet security upgrade; operators must pre-stage the matching nibid binary before the scheduled upgrade height. https://argusnodes.com/chains/starcoin 2026-08-20:change:Starcoin Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Starcoin v1.13.21 (released 2026-08-20) is an emergency mandatory hard fork for Main: every node must upgrade before block 32,165,300 (projected about 2026-08-21 23:46 UTC+8); from that height every block must carry an Ed25519 block permit signed by a compiled-in authorization key, and v1.13.20 or older nodes fall onto a legacy fork. https://argusnodes.com/chains/aleo 2026-08-19:change:Aleo Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change snarkOS v4.9.1 (August 19, 2026) is a mandatory upgrade with mainnet consensus activation at height 21,342,000 (predicted August 24, 2026); v4.9.0 (July 29, 2026) activated at height 20,794,000 and v4.8.0 (June 29, 2026) at height 19,860,000, so operators must track frequent consensus-version upgrades. https://argusnodes.com/chains/obyte 2026-08-19:change:Obyte Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change ocore 0.4.6 (protocol version 4.0) is actively developed with commits through 19 August 2026; minimum core version for full nodes is 0.4.2. https://argusnodes.com/chains/ergo 2026-08-18:change:Ergo Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Latest stable client is 6.0.4 (18 August 2026); 6.1.x builds are RocksDB variants published as pre-releases and 6.5.0 'Ergo Matrix' is DevNet-only. https://argusnodes.com/chains/fluent 2026-08-18:change:Fluent Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The official node binary is `fluent`, built from the fluentlabs-xyz/fluentbase repo (latest release v1.4.0, August 18, 2026), with prebuilt binaries and a ghcr Docker image; the docs site itself publishes no node-operator or hardware guide. https://argusnodes.com/chains/solana 2026-08-17:change:Solana Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Agave 4.2 is the recommended mainnet release for August 2026 with feature activations beginning the week of August 17, 2026: a 90% rent reduction, larger (4096-byte, v1 format) transactions, and slot times stepping from 400ms to 200ms; indexers decoding raw transaction bytes must handle the v1 layout. https://argusnodes.com/chains/robinhood-chain 2026-08-15:chain:Robinhood Chain page Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT New chain Arbitrum Orbit chain from Robinhood (chain ID 4663): dedicated full and archive nodes from $199/mo. https://argusnodes.com/chains/supra 2026-08-14:change:Supra Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Mainnet (chain id 8) runs node binary supra_node_v11.5.1 with framework aptosvm-v1.16_supra-v1.8.15 since epoch 7573 (2026-08-14); governance proposal 37 activated the v11 feature flags (BLS keys, BCFT certificates, DKG, inclusion proofs) at epoch 7575, and validators still on legacy ed25519 keys were dropped from the active set (83 to 66). https://argusnodes.com/chains/acala 2026-08-13:change:Acala Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Acala and Karura remain actively maintained: runtime 2.37.0 (2026-08-13) adjusted governance parameters to prevent spam attacks, following 2.36.0 (2026-06-14), 2.35.0 (2026-03-17) and 2.34.0 (2026-02-21); these are runtime releases with no node-operator action required. https://argusnodes.com/chains/firo 2026-08-13:change:Firo Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change On August 13, 2026 Firo disclosed and mitigated a Spark protocol vulnerability (coin forgery in multi-input spends; about 200 FIRO minted by the researcher on mainnet) and shipped mandatory v0.14.17.2, which restricts each Spark spend to a single coin until the v0.14.18.0 hard fork targeted for the third week of August 2026. https://argusnodes.com/chains/karura 2026-08-13:change:Karura Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Karura shares the Acala codebase and release train: runtime 2.37.0 (2026-08-13, branch release-karura-2.37.0) adjusted governance parameters to prevent spam attacks, after 2.36.0 (2026-06-14), 2.35.0 (2026-03-17) and 2.34.0 (2026-02-21), so Karura is still actively maintained. https://argusnodes.com/chains/aptos 2026-08-12:change:Aptos Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Node releases are frequent (v1.48.6 on 2026-08-12, v1.48.7-hotfix on 2026-08-19); operators are expected to track mainnet releases closely. https://argusnodes.com/chains/iota 2026-08-12:change:IOTA Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change iota-node is actively maintained with frequent network releases (mainnet v1.29.0 on 12 August 2026, v1.30.x on testnet/devnet in the same month); the operator docs also say IOTA plans to migrate indexing-heavy RPC endpoints away from full nodes to the separate iota-indexer / GraphQL services. https://argusnodes.com/chains/nolus 2026-08-12:change:Nolus Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change nolus-core v0.8.4 (2026-08-12) adds the v0.8.4 upgrade handler and bumps ibc-go to v10.5.0-nolus-1, following v0.8.3 (2026-08-04) which moved to Go 1.25 and the Nolus ibc-go fork with a Solana light client. https://argusnodes.com/chains/qubic 2026-08-12:change:Qubic Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Bob, the indexer exposing Ethereum-style JSON-RPC 2.0 and REST, is under active release (v1.5.16 on 2026-08-12) and is the official RPC/API component listed alongside Core and Core Lite. https://argusnodes.com/chains/stacks 2026-08-11:change:Stacks Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change stacks-core 4.0.2 (August 11, 2026) is a recommended bugfix release that adds a Bitcoin Core 31+ compatibility fix requiring burnchain.wallet_name to be set. https://argusnodes.com/chains/namada 2026-08-10:change:Namada Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Namada apps v201.0.9 (2026-08-10) is the latest release on the v201 mainnet line, fixing ZK proof validation and updating the CometBFT docker image to 0.37.16; the SDK was re-licensed to MIT. https://argusnodes.com/chains/reya 2026-08-07:change:Reya Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change On August 7, 2026 Reya moved its mainnet sequencer to Conduit, still running a customised Arbitrum Orbit build, with no change to endpoints or chain ID. https://argusnodes.com/chains/somnia 2026-08-06:change:Somnia Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The Jig hard fork activated on 6 August 2026 with sustained-use gas discounts and sender-dependent GASPRICE semantics; after upgrading, node operators can reclaim hundreds of GB by deleting retired storage types. https://argusnodes.com/chains/ink 2026-08-05:change:Ink Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The inkonchain/node repo (last commit August 5, 2026) still ships only op-geth and an archive path that depends on geth snapshots from the Gelato index; its README says an op-reth Compose path is still pending. https://argusnodes.com/chains/apechain 2026-07-30:change:ApeChain Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The official replica image is nitro-node:apechain-3.9.9 and the docs say a node syncs from snapshot in up to a few hours; the latest published mainnet snapshot (30 July 2026) is about 1.2 TB compressed. https://argusnodes.com/chains/darwinia 2026-07-30:change:Darwinia Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change v7.0.3 (2026-07-30, Upgrade Priority LOW) is the latest release (Darwinia2 spec 7030, increased governance decision window) with pre-built Linux binaries and a ghcr.io image; the node-operator docs (last updated 2026-01-28) still show v6.7.1 in their download commands, so check the releases page for the current binary. https://argusnodes.com/chains/obyte 2026-07-29:change:Obyte Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change A further protocol upgrade (pemCurvesFix, noPrivateAssetsWithConditions, bestParentPrefersOp) activates at mainnet MCI 12,155,000; the activation MCI was pushed back on 29 July 2026, so nodes must run current ocore before it is reached. https://argusnodes.com/chains/ontology 2026-07-29:change:Ontology Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Ontology v3.1.2 (29 July 2026) is a mandatory upgrade: 'All mainnet nodes need to be upgraded BEFORE the block height of 20800000'. https://argusnodes.com/chains/ontology 2026-07-29:change:Ontology Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The client is actively maintained (repository last pushed 29 July 2026), but the developer docs do not publish hardware requirements or an archive mode, so sizing must come from operator experience. https://argusnodes.com/chains/qubic 2026-07-29:change:Qubic Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Core release v1.301.0 (2026-07-29) was a mandatory non-seamless update adding the Bpp9000 mining algorithm and outsourced-computations consensus, and releases continue weekly per epoch (v1.301.7 on 2026-08-19 for epoch 227). https://argusnodes.com/chains/atomone 2026-07-28:change:AtomOne Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The docs.atom.one node setup and upgrade guides still reference v1.1.2 and Go 1.22.10, so use the atomone-hub/networks repo for current binary versions; the project is actively maintained (latest release 2026-07-28). https://argusnodes.com/chains/bifrost-network 2026-07-28:change:Bifrost Network Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change bifrost-node v2.2.1 (28 July 2026) is a mandatory update fixing a block-sync panic and a relay-executive membership hook; the client is actively maintained (repo pushed 21 August 2026). https://argusnodes.com/chains/bitcoin-cash 2026-07-28:change:Bitcoin Cash Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change BCHN v29.1.0 (2026-07-28) is an optional release that raises default -rpcthreads 4 to 16 and -rpcworkqueue 16 to 64 and adds spent-output RPCs. https://argusnodes.com/chains/zcash 2026-07-28:change:Zcash Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change NU6.3 (Ironwood) activates on mainnet at height 3,428,143 (~2026-07-28); Zebra v6.0.0 (2026-07-10) or later is mandatory and has an end-of-support height of 3,528,960. https://argusnodes.com/chains/bitcoin-sv 2026-07-27:change:Bitcoin SV Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Teranode source is public and shipping (v0.15.8 on July 27, 2026; v0.16.0 betas through August 6, 2026) but the official docs still place it in a testnet phase on Teratestnet; SV Node remains the documented mainnet client. https://argusnodes.com/chains/sui 2026-07-27:change:Sui Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change JSON-RPC deprecated: disabled on Sui Foundation mainnet full nodes the week of 27 July 2026, full decommission (code removal) mid-October 2026; migrate to gRPC or GraphQL RPC. https://argusnodes.com/chains/avail 2026-07-23:change:Avail Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change avail-node v2.3.5.0 (2026-07-23) raised the minimum supported Rust version to 1.88 and bumped the SP1 SDK to v6 for anyone building from source; v2.3.6.0 (2026-08-17) is the latest release, so the project is actively maintained. https://argusnodes.com/chains/nibiru 2026-07-23:change:Nibiru Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change nibid v2.17.0 (2026-07-23) added EVM mempool protection (8 live nonce slots per sender), governance-controlled Wasm block hooks and vendored Cosmos SDK/IBC Go v7 into the repo. https://argusnodes.com/chains/alephium 2026-07-20:change:Alephium Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Full node v4.6.0 (20 July 2026) redesigned the full-node websocket, which affects WebSocket consumers. https://argusnodes.com/chains/cardano 2026-07-18:change:Cardano Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Van Rossem intra-era hard fork to protocol version 11 activated on mainnet 18 July 2026 (ratified 13 July 2026); cardano-node 11.0.1 (released 2026-05-05) is the version that crosses the boundary. https://argusnodes.com/chains/zcash 2026-07-18:change:Zcash Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change zcashd reached End of Life: all zcashd 6.20.0 nodes halted automatically on 2026-07-18 at block 3417100 and the zcash/zcash repository is archived; node operators must run Zebra and wallet users migrate to Zallet. https://argusnodes.com/chains/zcash 2026-07-17:change:Zcash Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Zebra v6.2.0 (2026-07-17) adds an experimental zcashd-compat mode for custodians and v6.3.0 (2026-08-10) is the current release; Zebra is actively maintained by the Zcash Foundation. https://argusnodes.com/chains/chia 2026-07-16:change:Chia Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Project is actively maintained: chia-blockchain 2.7.3 was released 16 July 2026 (2.7.2 on 9 July 2026 added Weight Proof v2 and Python 3.14 support). https://argusnodes.com/chains/stacks 2026-07-15:change:Stacks Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change stacks-core 4.0.1 (July 15, 2026) contains the Epoch 4.0 (PoX-5, Clarity 6) hard fork activating at Bitcoin block 960,230 (about July 30, 2026); 3.4.x nodes diverge after that height, and from 4.0.1 stacks-node and stacks-signer ship as one combined release with a shared version. https://argusnodes.com/chains/neutron 2026-07-14:change:Neutron Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change On 14 July 2026 the neutron-org/neutron repository was archived and placed in maintenance mode with no active security monitoring; the canonical repository for releases and security fixes is now github.com/solva-solutions/neutron, and other core repos (neutron-sdk, neutron-std, mainnet-assets, testnets) were archived on 1 July 2026. https://argusnodes.com/chains/bifrost-polkadot 2026-07-13:change:Bifrost (Polkadot) Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Following the Hyperbridge security incident, Bifrost announced on 13 July 2026 that it is discontinuing Hyperbridge, taking an on-chain snapshot at 15 July 2026 06:00 UTC and restoring affected vDOT/vETH balances through governance, with Hyperbridge ETH variants replaced 1:1 by Snowbridge ETH. https://argusnodes.com/chains/mixin 2026-07-13:change:Mixin Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Mixin Kernel v0.19 ('fleet fireflies') was tagged July 13, 2026 with follow-up tags v0.19.5 (August 5, 2026) and v0.19.6 (August 10, 2026); the previous numbered line was v0.18.0 from February 2024, so operators on older builds should upgrade. https://argusnodes.com/chains/berachain 2026-07-08:change:Berachain Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Fusaka (Fulu) hard fork activated on mainnet 8 July 2026 16:00 UTC; BeaconKit v1.4.1 mandatory ('All mainnet operators must upgrade to this version before the fork activates'). https://argusnodes.com/chains/ink 2026-07-08:change:Ink Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Upgrade 19 (Karst hard fork) activated on mainnet OP Stack chains including Ink on July 8, 2026 16:00:01 UTC, requiring op-node v1.19.1 and op-reth v2.3.3 before activation. https://argusnodes.com/chains/qubic 2026-07-08:change:Qubic Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change The original qubic-archiver (go-archiver) is end-of-life and unmaintained; operators must migrate to archiver-v2 (go-archiver-v2, v1.6.1 released 2026-07-08) using the archiver-db-migrator tool. https://argusnodes.com/chains/giwa 2026-07-06:change:GIWA Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Network change Upgrade 19 (Karst) activated on GIWA Sepolia on 6 July 2026 at 15:00 KST (timestamp 1783317600): Osaka EVM, a 16,777,216 per-transaction gas cap, BN256 pairing input capped at 300 pairs, fault proofs moved from CANNON to CANNON_KONA (kona-client) and the L2 Contract Manager. op-geth and op-program do not support it.