According to TechFlow, on September 18, Celestia officially announced on social media that the Lemongrass upgrade has been launched. As Celestia’s first mainnet upgrade, Lemongrass introduced one-click interaction through IBC, inter-chain accounts, etc.

Earlier news, Celestia announced that it will soon carry out an important upgrade called Lemongrass. The main changes of this upgrade include:

  • CIP-6 implements a minimum gas price to reduce network junk transactions;

  • CIP-9 introduces data packet forwarding middleware to improve the efficiency of IBC cross-chain transfers;

  • CIP-10 establishes a new network upgrade signaling mechanism to simplify and expedite future upgrades;

  • CIP-14 introduces cross-chain account functionality to enhance interoperability with the Cosmos ecosystem;

  • CIP-20 deprecates the Blobstream module, simplifies the network architecture and improves performance.