Nibiru Advancement Notes (NANs)

NANs are working notes from the team building Nibiru. Each one covers a stretch of releases and records the context, decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons that usually stay in internal discussions.

NANs aren't marketing updates or improvement proposals.

Older posts in this series are the Nibiru Ecosystem Updates in the docs, from September 2024 to May 2025.

  1. · 10 min read

    NAN 008: Defending Wasm in Layers, and Reading EVM State from Wasm

    NAN 008 covers Nibiru v2.19.0 and v2.20.0, two releases that protected the network from a Wasm runtime vulnerability while we prepared the repair. It also covers Wasm contracts reading EVM state, transaction lookup by either hash, and clearer fees on Sai.

  2. · 11 min read

    NAN 007: A Month Spent on Speed, and Getting Block Time Back

    NAN 007 covers August 2026, a month we spent on speed. Sai got faster to load and to trade, mainnet block time went back to about 1.5 seconds, and Sai launched Points and referral accounting that follows the code.

  3. · 9 min read

    NAN 006: Owning Our Dependencies, a Nonce-Aware Mempool, and 24-Hour Votes

    NAN 006 covers Nibiru v2.16.0 and v2.17.0. We moved the Cosmos SDK, IBC Go, the Wasm module, and the Wasm VM into the Nibiru repository, stopped spam from filling blocks with EVM transactions that can't execute, cut governance votes to 24 hours, and turned off authz.

  4. · 9 min read

    NAN 005: Zero Gas in Browser Wallets, a Self-Governing Treasury, and the Return of 0x0801

    NAN 005 covers Nibiru v2.14.0 and v2.15.0. New users can make gasless calls from ordinary browser wallets, the Foundation Treasury now manages its own signers, and the old oracle address 0x0801 returns as a read-only price source so MIM OFT bridge fee quotes work again.

  5. · 9 min read

    NAN 004: Retiring the Native Oracle with v2.12.0

    NAN 004 covers Nibiru v2.12.0. Validators no longer vote on prices, because the chain's built-in oracle is retired. Mapping a token between Nibiru's Cosmos and EVM sides now needs approval on mainnet, and indexers no longer see events from failed EVM transactions. On Sai, stocks, ETFs, and commodities arrived in one listing wave.

  6. · 6 min read

    NAN 003: A Smoother EVM for Sai, Passkey Signing, and Zero Gas with v2.11.0

    This release makes Nibiru feel simpler at the surface and safer underneath. It fixes a confusing EVM reporting issue, expands gasless onboarding for approved contracts, ships building blocks for passkey-secured smart accounts, and includes a high-priority consensus security patch.

  7. · 6 min read

    NAN 002: Liquidity Surges, New Omnichain Fungible Tokens, and Sai's Path to Mainnet

    NAN 002 highlights major liquidity inflows on Nibiru, the launch of several new omnichain fungible tokens (OFTs), and progress on the Sai Perps app.

  8. · 8 min read

    NAN 001: Genesis of NANs, Nibiru v2.7.0, and BTC on Nibiru

    NAN 001 introduces Nibiru Advancement Notes (NANs), a new series offering a candid look at the tradeoffs, decisions, and progress shaping Nibiru's evolution. NAN 001 covers Nibiru v2.7.0, cbBTC on Nibiru, and changes to Sai.