Migration Roadmap
The Morse to Shannon migration is not a one day cutover.
It is a process that will span multiple weeks involving many stakeholders. It includes, but is not limited to things like Genesis, Preparation, Onboarding, Cutover, etc.
The following diagram provides a high level overview of the migration process:
Shadow Genesis
Shannon BlockGenesis
Grove prepares minimal genesis file
Contains 1 Account-PNF w/ 5% of Morse POKT-Bootstrap Allocation
Contains 1 Validator-Grove Validator w/minimal stake
Inflation & emission Param Values - Set to Zero
Other Param Values - Not a blocker & can be updated later
Shannon Relay Genesis
PNF -> Grove bootstrap funding
Grove creates the first Service for ETH MainNet
Grove stakes the first Application, Gateway & Supplier for ETH MainNet
Grove begins shadowing some traffic to Shannon MainNet
Manual E2E monitoring, observation, validation, etc...
Ecosystem Onboarding
Internal Ecosystem Onboarding
PNF sends bootstrap funds onchain to enable all of the efforts below
Early adopters start run Full MainNet Nodes
Community deploys Block Explorers & Faucets
Identify the first ~6 Services (i.e. Chains)
Identify the first ~4 Suppliers (i.e. Relay Miners)
Identify the first ~2 Gateways (i.e. Applications)
Validator Strategy
Identify 1-3 Morse Pocket Network Validators interested in "Early Adopter Participation"
Identify 1-3 Cosmos Validators interested in "Early Adopter Participation"
Submit Gov Tx to increase the number of allowed Validator
Increase Validator distribution & diversity
CEXs deploy full nodes
DAO distributes to white-glove partners
External Ecosystem Alignment & Kickoff
Kickoff IBC Bridging & Integration (Cosmos Hub, Layer, Noble)
Kickoff EVM Bridging & Integration (Axelar)
Kickoff Restaking & AVS Conversations (EigenLayer, Babylon)
Migration & Cutover Preparation
CEX Preparation - Provide RPC Endpoint - OR - Support Full Node Onboarding
Supplier Onboarding - Onboard Key Suppliers to support all Network traffic
Parameter R&D - Prepare MainNet Governance params
Marketing & Comms
Alignment w/ various stakeholders
Cosmos Metadata - Merge PRs Cosmos Tooling (Keplr, CosmosRegistry)
Grove Load Test - 10B Relay Load Test Mimic TestNet Results
Judgement Day
CEXs DROP support for Morse
Export Snapshot from Morse
Manually remove the "Bootstrap Allocation" from PNF's Account
Import Morse Snapshot into Shannon (ImportMorseAccounts)
Stakeholders can begin claiming Morse POKT (ClaimMorseAccount, ClaimMorseSupplier, ClaimMorseApplication)
CEXs ADD support for Shannon Migration
Stabilization
PNF Updates All Gov Params - Align Inflation with Morse as a starting point
Relay Migration - Grove and other Gateways migrate all traffic to Shannon
Token Support - Handle incoming support requests w.r.t token migration
Network Stability - Monitor network health & stability (relays, QoS, etc)
Tooling - Update docs & tooling based on incoming requests
Network Activation & Maturation
Ecosystem Alignment
Continued Marketing & Comms
Make the validator set permissionless so anyone can onboard
Close the loop on IBC Integration
Close the loop on EVM Integration
DEX Integration
Continue effort on restaking integrations (Babylon & EigenLayer)
Future Work
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