1 · Why Andromeda?
The pre-Andromeda design traded a second “confirmation” block for safety. That safety came at a cost: >12 s finality, leader-centric risks, slower cross-shard flows and heavyweight cross-chain proofs. Andromeda removes those bottlenecks without sacrificing Byzantine-fault tolerance. MultiversX Agora
2 · What changes exactly?
3 · What do builders & dApp teams need to check?
- Cross-shard assumptions – update any hard-coded 6-block flows to 3-block logic.
- Proof-verifiers – external bridges/oracles can drop the confirmation-block check and use the new fixed validator-set proofs.
- Monitoring/analytics – expect half the finality time and a higher signature count per block (400 sigs).
Governance Vote Results
The Andromeda v1.9 Release has successfully passed its governance vote. The vote, which ran from March 28th to April 7th, resulted in a decisive 99.69% voting in favor of the upgrade, with 0.12% against and 0.19% abstaining. The entire discourse surrounding the release took place off-chain on Agora, and can be reviewed here.
Activation epoch
Andromeda Release is scheduled to be activated starting with epoch 1763, anticipated on May 28th, 2025, around 17:00 UTC.
Github Full binary release notes: https://github.com/multiversx/mx-chain-go/releases/tag/v1.9.6
Mainnet Config: https://github.com/multiversx/mx-chain-mainnet-config/releases/tag/v1.9.6.0
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