Celestia is about to upgrade to Lemongrass, introducing several important updates

Celestia has announced an important upgrade called Lemongrass. This upgrade includes several consensus layer changes, such as cross-chain accounts, data packet forwarding middleware, and a simplified CIP-10 mechanism for future upgrades. The Celestia-app v2.0.0 version will activate Lemongrass on the Arabica Devnet in August.After successful testing, the Mocha Testnet is expected to upgrade in August as well. The Lemongrass upgrade for the Celestia mainnet Beta version is expected to take place in early to mid-September. In addition, there will be technical changes to the data availability (DA) layer, including trimming blob data (CIP-4) and a new messaging framework called Shwap (CIP-19).The Lemongrass hard fork covers multiple CIPs specified in CIP-17, including price execution (CIP-6), data packet forwarding middleware (CIP-9), coordinated upgrades (CIP-10), cross-chain accounts (CIP-14), and disabling the Blobstream module (CIP-20). These updates aim to improve network efficiency, simplify architecture, and enhance interoperability with other blockchains.