Network protocols and connectivity
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Convex 0.8.7 ships something most decentralised networks still handle out-of-band with flag days and coordinated restarts: protocol upgrades scheduled on-chain, activating at a precise instant in consensus time, with the network's identity — its genesis hash — untouched. No hard fork, no new chain.
When your internal queue is full, you have two bad options: drop the message (making it the client's problem) or block the thread (making it your problem).
At Convex, we found a third way. We call it the Parking Ticket Pattern.
What if you could point psql at a lattice database and just... query it? No custom clients. No special drivers. Just psql -h localhost -p 5432 and you're in.
That was the goal. Here's how we got there.
With Protonet live, Convex 0.8.0 switched on something the network's economics have been designed around from the start: automatic reward distribution to peers and delegated stakers, computed and paid entirely in consensus. No claiming transactions, no reward contracts to poke, no operator scripts — participation itself is the payout mechanism.