[Urgent] Scheduled: Story Aeneid Testnet - Upgrade Story to v1.6.1

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Quicknode

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Apr 01, 2026 - 19:00 UTC

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Apr 01, 2026 - 13:00 UTC

Scheduled

Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the Story Aeneid Testnet during the maintenance window.

**Client Updates:**
- story: Upgrading to v1.6.1

**Upgrade Details:**
- Mandatory hard fork activates at block height **16,332,000**
- Upgrade expected to occur at approximately **14:00–15:00 UTC on April 1st, 2026**
- Maintenance window: **13:00–16:00 UTC**

**Service Impact:**
- Short period of downtime of a few minutes during the upgrade

**Release Notes Summary:**

**Network Upgrade**
- Mandatory hard fork activates at Aeneid block height **16,332,000**

**New RPC-Accessible Functionality**
- **Confidential Data Rails (CDR):** New on-chain protocol enabling users to allocate encrypted data vaults, submit decryption requests, and retrieve threshold-decrypted outputs — all accessible via standard on-chain transactions
- **Distributed Key Generation (DKG):** Validator committee collectively manages threshold cryptographic keys; the resulting global public key is available on-chain for users to encrypt data against

**Additional Information:**
- Full release notes:
- https://github.com/piplabs/story/releases/tag/v1.6.1
Posted Apr 01, 2026 - 08:40 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: Story (AENEID — JSON-RPC API, AENEID — Websockets API).