Trying to figure out exactly what Dusk's Boreas upgrade turns on, because "infrastructure-focused update" doesn't tell you much on its own.
Here's what I could confirm: Boreas brought Rusk v1.7.0 live on testnet, along with Rusk Wallet v0.4.0. Dusk names three things it's aiming at — network resilience, resource accounting, client compatibility — and says the real point of all this is getting ready for DuskEVM's mainnet launch.
Worth noticing how this is framed. It's not being pitched as its own feature-drop. It's explicitly a stepping stone, which means the real test isn't "does Boreas work" — it's whether DuskEVM's mainnet move goes smoothly because of it.
I want to be careful here though — that's still an outcome nobody's proven yet. Testnet being stable and mainnet actually being ready aren't the same claim. One's confirmed. The other's the thing Boreas is supposed to set up.
If anyone's actually compared testnet performance under v1.7.0 to the version before it, I'd genuinely like to see those numbers next to the "improved resilience" framing.
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
Here's what I could confirm: Boreas brought Rusk v1.7.0 live on testnet, along with Rusk Wallet v0.4.0. Dusk names three things it's aiming at — network resilience, resource accounting, client compatibility — and says the real point of all this is getting ready for DuskEVM's mainnet launch.
Worth noticing how this is framed. It's not being pitched as its own feature-drop. It's explicitly a stepping stone, which means the real test isn't "does Boreas work" — it's whether DuskEVM's mainnet move goes smoothly because of it.
I want to be careful here though — that's still an outcome nobody's proven yet. Testnet being stable and mainnet actually being ready aren't the same claim. One's confirmed. The other's the thing Boreas is supposed to set up.
If anyone's actually compared testnet performance under v1.7.0 to the version before it, I'd genuinely like to see those numbers next to the "improved resilience" framing.
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk