zaki
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Hello Validators,
The Cosmos-SDK v0.25 release looks likely for Oct 16th which means we should be ready for gaia-9000 on Oct 19th or Oct 22nd.
gaia-9000 will be a standard state export and distributed network startup.
gaia-9000 will not be the Game of Stakes testnet. GoS will start after we have some confidence in the stability of gaia-9000
We haven’t stretched the testnet launch muscles in almost 3 months so we all may be rusty.
We are now extremely close to launch with Proof of Stake effectively completed in the GoS milestone.
Lets use this as a key moment to get ready for the Cosmos Hub to go live.
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Launch 9k like Lets do it the same day software release. 
Can’t wait
gogogo! gaia 9000! lets do the job 333
suyu
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Great news!!!
Cannot wait!!!
Great! Looking forward to the release of v0.25 and start gaia-9000! 
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Amazing! I’ve been missing the upgrade and launch process. Can’t wait for the new features either. Time for some more testing!
Can we try forking the current chain to start gaia-9000 with new genesis file?
zaki
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@kwunyeung I don’t understand what you are proposing.
Is it possible to keep the current blocks, upgrade the software and replace the chain-id to become gaia-9000?
No, we’ve made many breaking changes to the way things are stored in state on both the tendermint and the sdk side.
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zaki
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Since the cosmos sdk still hasn’t been released, maybe ~Monday for gaia-9000
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zaki
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We are deep in simulator bug finding territory on the v0.25 release.
All Hail the Simulator.
https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/2501
suyu
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https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/2221
how will the new bech32 effect the GoS registration?
some people still use cosmosaccaddr1 for signup
zaki
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I have a tool for updating the bech32 hrp prefixes. It’s not an issue.
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trevor
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we are waiting for sdk v0.25 and gaia-9000…
zaki
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The SDK team is planning to cut v0.25 rc0 zero today and start the internal testnet.
How would be people feel about targeting Monday for gaia-9000?
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monday is the best! agree!