How blockchain upgrades start: From idea to proposal
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Blockchains do not stand still. Fee markets shift, validator sets evolve, and new modules arrive to handle everything from privacy to crosschain messaging. Behind each of those changes sits a simple starting point: an idea that someone cared enough to write down. Cointelegraph Decentralization Guardians (CTDG) was created to give those ideas a more reliable home. The initiative runs high-performance validators and participates in governance across networks such as Solana,, Injective, Chiliz, Polkadot, Coreum, Canton and Mantra, contributing to decentralization and security at the protocol layer. The CTDG Dev Hub, launched in collaboration with blockchain infrastructure provider Boosty Labs, extends the work to the development process itself. It serves as a public coordination space where contributors can submit, discuss and track upgrade proposals instead of relying on fragmented chats or closed documentation. This explainer follows the path an idea takes inside CTDG Dev Hub, from the first spark to implementation on a live network, and shows how the platform turns informal conversations into transparent, verifiable change. The spark: Where upgrade ideas emerge Innovation in decentralized ecosystems tends to appear where people are immersed in the network’s behavior. Instead of a single authority, upgrade ideas spark from everyday interactions, such as a validator noticing that block propagation slows under peak load or a core developer identifying an opportunity to simplify a module. Within CTDG Dev Hub, those insights can come from many contexts, including: Day-to-day operations handled by validators and node operators who monitor performance metrics and reliability. Community or governance discussions that reveal recurring issues with network parameters, like fees, staking rules or user experience. Experiments on testnets, where developers trial new configurations and features without risking mainnet capital. Each of these sparks has potential, but, at this stage, they stand as just a pattern in logs, a testnet experiment…
