Announcing the Vite Pre-Mainnet Launch!

Coming soon to a node near you

Vite Editor
Vite Labs
2 min readMay 17, 2019

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All of us here at Vite Labs are excited to announce the completion of a major milestone — we’re officially launching the Vite Pre-Mainnet next Tuesday on May 21, 2019. Thank you to all of our users who have supported us to this point! All nodes (SBPs and full nodes) currently in the Testnet should start the migration upgrade at 15:00, May 21 (UTC+8).

Migration details

  • Go-vite v2.0.0 will be released at https://github.com/vitelabs/go-vite/releases at 15:00, May 21 (UTC+8).
  • Download & install to upgrade your node.
  • The Vite Pre-Mainnet will activate automatically when 18 or more SBPs have completed their respective upgrades.
  • Enjoy the latest and greatest Vite Pre-Mainnet!

Update features:

  1. Optimized blockchain data structure for higher performance and reduced forking rates.
  2. Improved quota calculation methodology for increased stability.
  3. Optimized ledger storage space and data synchronization, improving download and data writing speeds.
  4. Re-implemented random number generation to ensure true randomization.

Vite Testnet Service Stop Notice:

Starting from 15:00 May 21, 2019 (UTC+8), all Vite products and services, including Vite wallets (Web, iOS, Android) and associated functions (voting, airdrop, faucets, network transfers), Vite block explorer and ViteX (beta version), will be stopped until the migration is complete.

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