i went to check whether boreas ever actually made it to mainnet, since it's been floating around as a big milestone. what i found instead was two separate testnet events under the same name, two weeks apart, and honestly i almost stopped at the may 12th date assuming that was the whole story. dusk activated boreas on the testnet may 12th, framed as strengthening resilience and duskevm readiness. then may 27th, a "boreas release candidate 1" went live, also on testnet, explicitly called the final validation step before mainnet.
so the may 12th activation wasn't actually the finish line, it was an earlier phase, and there's a second checkpoint after it that i hadn't seen mentioned anywhere until i went looking specifically. i still can't find an announcement confirming boreas actually reached mainnet after that release candidate.
it's a normal way to stage a hard fork, testnet then RC then mainnet, nothing wrong with the process itself. i just think a lot of coverage treats "boreas activated" as one clean event when it's actually at least two testnet stages, and possibly still hasn't cleared the last one.
has boreas actually gone live on mainnet since may 27th, or is that release candidate still the most recent confirmed step? 🧐
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
so the may 12th activation wasn't actually the finish line, it was an earlier phase, and there's a second checkpoint after it that i hadn't seen mentioned anywhere until i went looking specifically. i still can't find an announcement confirming boreas actually reached mainnet after that release candidate.
it's a normal way to stage a hard fork, testnet then RC then mainnet, nothing wrong with the process itself. i just think a lot of coverage treats "boreas activated" as one clean event when it's actually at least two testnet stages, and possibly still hasn't cleared the last one.
has boreas actually gone live on mainnet since may 27th, or is that release candidate still the most recent confirmed step? 🧐
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
