SIMD-0437-2
Rent Cut — Step 2 of 5
Lowers rent to 5,080 lamports per byte.
Rent Cut — Step 2 of 5 is active on Solana mainnet since epoch 1033 — activated 5 weeks ago.
- mainnet
- active since epoch 1033 · 5 weeks ago
- testnet
- active since epoch 1026 · 6 weeks ago
- devnet
- active since epoch 1141 · 6 weeks ago
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