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Mainnet activation: 10 September 2026.
| Date | What happens | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Today | Supernova on Testnet & Devnet | Healthy |
| 2 April | Supernova on Testnet | Live |
| 20 August | Supernova on Devnet | Live |
| 4 September | Release v2.0.6.0 out. Upgrade window open. Validators are upgrading. | In progress |
| 10 September | Supernova activates on mainnet: epoch 2233 at 17:45 UTC, activation round 32,157,661 at 18:05 UTC. | Pending |
| Surface Metric | Now | After | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block time | 6 seconds | 600ms | 10x Faster |
| Finality | 0.25s - 1.8s | <250ms | Instant Settlement |
| Cross-shard settlement | ~18s | ~2.4s | 10x Faster Inter-shard |
| Your address, keys, balances | Yours | Still yours | 100% Backward Compatible |
| You are | You do |
|---|---|
| A user or holder | Play with Supernova ↗ |
| A validator or node operator | Upgrade your node between 4 and 10 September. |
| A builder | Get ready ↗ |
| Account | What it posts |
|---|---|
| @MultiversX | Network announcements |
| @CodeMultiversX | Releases and developer notes |
| @MultiversXFndn | MultiversX Foundation |
Devnet crossed to 600ms on 20 August at round 15539530. Mainnet activation is by round, inside the 10 September epoch, and the exact round is published with the v2.0.6.0 release, 4 September. Mainnet epochs measure 14401 rounds of six seconds, 24 hours and six seconds, so the boundary walks six seconds later each day. Engineering's published time for epoch 2233 is 17:45 UTC. About half of mainnet transactions cross shards.