[Urgent] Monad - Mainnet - Upgrade to v0.16.1

Scheduled for Aug 31, 01:00 - 07:00 UTC

Scheduled

We are upgrading our Monad Mainnet infrastructure to v0.16.1.

This is a mandatory network upgrade that activates the MONAD_TEN hard fork on mainnet at 2026-09-02 14:30 UTC (Unix timestamp 1788359400). Nodes not upgraded before this timestamp will diverge from the network and continue applying MONAD_NINE consensus rules, resulting in chain divergence.
This release also enforces page-encoded timeline requirements on mainnet.

During the maintenance window, brief interruptions to RPC availability may occur.

RPC Changes:
All JSON-RPC methods — Consensus rules change at MONAD_TEN activation (2026-09-02 14:30 UTC); MIP-8 page-encoded storage becomes active. RPC responses and state queries after this timestamp will reflect page-encoded storage semantics, which differ from MONAD_NINE behavior. Clients relying on pre-activation state structure or transaction ordering may observe different results post-activation.

https://github.com/category-labs/monad-bft/releases/tag/v0.16.1
Posted Aug 28, 2026 - 14:22 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affects: Monad (Mainnet - JSON-RPC API, Mainnet - Streams, Mainnet - Websockets API, Mainnet - Webhooks).