According to Foresight News, Fantom Foundation said that a new version of Opera is coming and validators have started upgrading this week. The upgrade is powered by Sonic technology and aims to improve the scalability of the network. The biggest change is the new storage system of Opera Chain, which aims to reduce access time through file-based StateDB. For validating nodes, it is possible to reduce storage requirements by more than 90%. In addition, the upgrade also includes optimization and fine-tuning improvements to the Lachesis consensus mechanism.