tl;dr The Pocket Network core protocol team has decided to implement the first version of the next iteration of the protocol (v1) as a “micro-rollup” using Rollkit with Celestia as a Data Availability (DA) layer.
You can read the announcement by @MatthewRossi, our Head of Product (Protocol), on behalf of the Pocket Network Foundation, here to skip the technical history and jump straight to the point.
In early August, the Pocket Network core protocol team made a crucial decision: we temporarily halted all development on the upcoming version of the Pocket Network Protocol: the Shannon upgrade (formerly referred to as v1). We embarked on a 3-week intensive research to evaluate rapid advancements of other projects in the industry and ensure an opti