SIMD-0437-1
Rent Cut — Step 1 of 5
Lowers rent from 6,960 to 6,333 lamports per byte — the first of five feature-gated reductions on the way to a 90% cut.
Rent Cut — Step 1 of 5 is active on Solana mainnet since epoch 1028 — activated 2 days ago.
- mainnet
- active since epoch 1028 · 2 days ago
- testnet
- active since epoch 1019 · 9 days ago
- devnet
- active since epoch 1137 · 5 days ago
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