The Tron team announced via X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that its mainnet was officially upgraded to GreatVoyage-v4.7.3(Chilon) on October 25, 2023 (Singapore time).
They explained that Chilon is a non-mandatory upgrade version. It will improve the convenience of development on the TRON network, improve the speed of node startup and initialization, and greatly optimize the performance of the TRON network infrastructure.
Some of the features available on the new upgrade include; richer gRPC interfaces, faster node startup and initialization, more stable network connection, and higher network performance of throughput.
TRON is a public blockchain attempting to become the core infrastructure for a decentralized internet. TRON relies on a Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) mechanism in which 27 Super Representatives rotate every 6 hours to validate blocks and transactions. TRX is down by less than 1% so far today and is trading at $0.09428 at press time.