IOTA Just Flipped a Major Switch: Starfish Is Live on Mainnet (And It Changes Everything)
The release of IOTA’s v1.21.1 marks a significant architectural shift for the network, introducing the Starfish consensus mechanism to mainnet alongside a series of deep protocol and infrastructure changes. While version updates are often treated as incremental, this upgrade carries structural implications that extend across consensus, networking, indexing, and node operation layers. The activation of…