According to BlockBeats, on January 3, the Starknet Governance Committee has launched a proposal on the Governance Hub to activate the Alpha V0.13.0 upgrade on the mainnet. The vote will start at 12:00 UTC on January 4 (20:00 Beijing time) and will last until 12:00 UTC on January 8 (20:00 Beijing time). Earlier news, Starknet had announced in the community that it plans to upgrade to V0.13.0 on January 22. The main content of the upgrade is to add the V3 transaction type. The purpose is to enable the Starknet network to support some future functional upgrades, such as adding STRK as a gas token in addition to ETH.