Disclaimer

This proposal replaces proposal #7, which was mistakenly submitted as a text proposal. Please ignore proposal #7, votes on this proposal will have no effect on the upgrade.

AtomOne v2 upgrade

The AtomOne v2 release is a major release that will follow the standard governance process. The on-chain voting period typically lasts 3 weeks.

On governance vote approval, validators will be required to update the AtomOne chain binary at the halt-height specified in the on-chain proposal

Release Binary & Upgrade Resources

IMPORTANT: Note that AtomOne v2 binary MUST be used.

The release can be found here.

The upgrade guide can be found here.

Proposed Release Contents

This release introduces the following major new feature:

• Add the x/photon module

Although this feature will make the photon token the sole fee token, the v2 upgrade will implement this change gradually. Rather than immediately rejecting transactions using atone tokens for fees, a transition period for users to switch to photon will be provided. During this time, both photon and atone will be accepted as fee tokens. Pending governance approval, a subsequent parameter change proposal, will then establish photon as the exclusive fee token.

The other changes can be found in the changelog here.

Schedule

With a three-week voting period, in the event the proposal is supported, it should pass around May 22nd. The upgrade will be expected to take place the following week, at May 28th. The specific block halt-height is 3,318,000.

Testing and Testnets

The v2 release has gone through rigorous testing, including e2e tests and integration tests.

Validators and node operators have joined a public testnet to participate in a test upgrade to a release candidate before the AtomOne upgrades to the final release.

Potential risk factors

Although very extensive testing and simulation will have taken place there always exists a risk that the AtomOne experiences problems due to potential bugs or errors from the new features. In the case of serious problems, validators are recommended to stop operating the network immediately. Coordination with validators will happen in the #validator-private channel of the AtomOne Community Discord to create and execute a contingency plan. Likely this will be an emergency release with fixes or the recommendation to consider the upgrade aborted and revert back to the previous release of AtomOne (v1.1.2)

Governance votes

The following items summarize the voting options and what it means for this proposal:

YES - You agree that the AtomOne chain should be updated with this release.

NO - You disagree that the AtomOne chain should be updated with this release.

ABSTAIN - You wish to contribute to the quorum but you formally decline to vote either for or against the proposal.