Fixed a critical bug in 1.7.0 that prevented new nodes from joining the network and existing nodes from restarting their secretd process.
Added the ability to rotate consensus seed during a network upgrade
this will be executed during this upgrade
Added expedited gov proposals
Initial params (can be amended with a param change proposal):
Minimum deposit: 750 SCRT
Voting time: 24 hours
Voting treshhold: 2/3 yes to pass
If an expedited proposal fails to meet the threshold within the scope of shorter voting duration, the expedited proposal is then converted to a regular proposal and restarts voting under regular voting conditions.
Added auto-restaking - an opt-in feature that enables automatic compounding of staking rewards
Added light-client validation for blocks
Protects against leaking private data using an offline fork attack
Enables trusted block heights and block time to be relied on by contracts