According to TechFlow, Hardhat Chad, the developer of Solana's ecological mining project ORE, announced an important upgrade to the protocol. One week after ORE's mainnet launch, it will make its first contract adjustment. The Epoch time is increased from 1 minute to 2 minutes, with the goal of reducing the volatility of the reward rate adjustment. In ORE, "epoch" refers to the time interval between reward rate adjustments. Extending the epoch time will give the contract more data points for statistical calculations, which will help stabilize the reward rate.
Miners' mining experience remains unchanged, and they still earn ORE every minute, but the frequency of reset instruction calls is halved. If necessary, the epoch time may be further extended to 5 minutes or 10 minutes in the future. These changes are part of the ORE "hardening" process, which aims to optimize the code and prepare for the final freeze.
The ORE contract remains completely open source, and the updated code has been made public on GitHub. Chad emphasized that the team will closely monitor the effects of this adjustment and make further optimizations as needed.
