Protocol upgrade separates consensus from execution to ease scaling limits

A protocol upgrade discussed by a participant in Cointelegraph’s Dev Hub separates block consensus from transaction execution. Under the proposed design, network nodes can agree on blocks before completing the execution of the transactions they contain. This change is intended to address scaling bottlenecks by allowing the agreement process and execution work to proceed independently rather than requiring execution to finish first. Cointelegraph reported the development on August 26, 2026. The upgrade is relevant to the ORE market page, which is associated with the report. The supplied information does not specify whether the change has been deployed, identify a rollout schedule, or provide technical details beyond the separation of consensus and execution.