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Most chain announcements are about new features. This one is about turning some off.

RougeChain node release 1.6.2 is out today. It is a mandatory upgrade for every mainnet validator and full node, and it has to be installed before block 235. Here is what is in it and why we shipped it this way.

What changes

Two upgrades activate at block 235, both announced earlier: mintable tokens with creator-only minting an…

RougeChain’s current bridge is live and usable for XRGE, qETH and qUSDC.

Behind the scenes, we’ve also been building the next XRGE bridge architecture around post-quantum authorization using ML-DSA-65.

So far we’ve:

• hardened the existing production bridge
• rebuilt withdrawal and replay protections
• added cryptographically verified finality
• built post-quantum root signing and authority rotation
• tested the f…