Pocket Network — Shannon State Shift Day

tl;dr — Pocket Network will hard-fork from Morse MainNet to Shannon MainNet on June 3, 2025 at 10 a.m. PT.

Table of Contents

• State Shift Day Announcement
• What happens on State Shift Day?
• What happens after?
• Staying up to date & getting help

State Shift Day Announcement

Two weeks ago we released the first set of Shannon-migration resources. You can catch up here.

The hard fork is locked in for June 3, 2025 at 10 a.m. PT.

In honor of Claude Shannon’s work on bit manipulation in the context of Information Theory and Signal Processing, we’re calling the event State Shift Day.

This upgrade is a major step to unlocking native interoperability, maintainability, and most importantly, the technical capability to iterate quickly so we can achieve our .

What happens on State Shift Day?

The Pocket Network Foundation 🌀, with support from Grove 🌿, will perform the following sequence:

1. Morse Snapshot — capture the Morse MainNet state.
2. State Transform — convert that snapshot into a Shannon genesis-like state object, with one-off adjustments for special cases (e.g. highly-staked validators).
3. Shannon Upload — publish the state transform to Shannon, opening token-claim windows.
4. Morse Rewards Off — adjust RelayToTokenMultiplier on Morse to 0; turning off the production of new tokens removing incentives for any actor (Validator or Supplier) to continue participating in the network.
5. Traffic Shift — Gateways (including Grove) begin rerouting traffic from Morse to Shannon.

What happens after?

Migrating a live, permissionless network and changing its cryptographic key scheme has never been done — per all the conversations we’ve had with other Web3 organizations — so we’re pushing the frontier.

Our priority is to minimize downtime for users while giving every participant a clear path forward.

Here is what we anticipate to happen and follow in the days and weeks following State Shift Day:

• Token Claims — Sovereign POKT holders can claim immediately. The Foundation will maintain the upgrade functionality for one year after the Shannon cutover date to make sure that everyone with a Morse wallet has had a chance to upgrade to Shannon.
• Centralized Exchanges — CEXs will (likely) briefly pause POKT deposits/withdrawals while claiming on behalf of customers. Most already support Cosmos-style chains, so we anticipate a smooth process. There is a risk of delisting as well.
• Morse Actor Migration — With incentives gone, we expect all Suppliers and Validators to quickly move from Morse to Shannon.
• Morse Chain Halt — As Validators stop signing Morse blocks and exchanges disable trading, Morse will naturally halt.
• Shannon MVP Tooling — Over the following weeks, we’ll prioritize feedback from the community and focus on tooling to ensure a smooth continued transition, as we begin onboarding new ecosystem participants.

If you rely on Grove’s portal, we expect brief interruptions. We are aware that Grove and Pocket Network act as a backup RPC provider for major services, so please ensure that you have another backup during State Shift Week.

Staying up to date & getting help

We’re shipping updates to our and daily.

Stay current via , , , or . If you need support, reach us via email, or book time on .

Large ecosystem participants (exchanges, investors, validators, suppliers) can contact the Foundation for bespoke support.

We’re actively publishing and updating a living .

Thank you

State Shift Day is the first concrete step toward a . On behalf of Grove Inc. and the Pocket Network Foundation, thank you for building the next internet with us. 🌿🌀