Short Summary
This proposal discusses the deprecation of the Altair Chain, Centrifuge’s canary network on Kusama, in light of Centrifuge’s strategic migration to Ethereum and other EVM-based chains
High level objective
The objective of this proposal is to streamline Centrifuge’s operations by phasing out the Altair Chain, allowing the protocol to focus resources on growing protocol adoption, TVL and revenue for Centrifuge V3.
Background
Altair served as Centrifuge’s canary network on the Kusama ecosystem, enabling experimentation with exploratory features before their deployment on the Centrifuge Chain. Historically, Altair played a role in testing and refining features.
However, recent strategic shifts, including Centrifuge’s migration to the Ethereum
Mainnet (CP149) and the development of Centrifuge V3 as a multi-chain, EVM-based protocol (CP141), have reduced the need for a separate canary network. Maintaining Altair requires significant costs for maintaining infrastructure and developer resources for upgrades, such as runtime upgrades and compatibility with Kusama|Polkadot’s Substrate framework, which is no longer aligned with Centrifuge’s roadmap. Additionally, there is limited developer capacity to support ongoing Altair upgrades. Due to these factors, there is no use-case for maintaining the chain.
Description of Activity
This proposal seeks community feedback on deprecating the Altair Chain, which would effectively cease its operation and maintenance.
A 14-day period of public discussion will be initiated to determine the potential future of the Altair Network. During this time:
- Parties interested in assuming responsibility for the ongoing maintenance and development of Altair Chain and in defining a renewed purpose for the network are invited to submit a proposal.
- If no formal ownership or proposals are presented within the 14-day window, the process to deprecate the Altair Network will commence.
The deprecation would involve:
- Community Communication: Informing Altair users, Exchanges, Collators, and AIR token holders about the deprecation timeline.
- The k/factory team will work on a runtime upgrade for the Altair chain, which will formally shut it down.
Assuming this passes, we would initiate communication immediately and formally shut it down in Q3-Q4 of this year.
Change or improvement
- Deprecating Altair Chain