Rocket Pool's Saturn 2 upgrade has progressed to the first stage of its governance approval process. The team is running four sentiment polls to gauge community support before deciding whether the items proceed to a formal signalling (RocketDash) vote.
Rocket Pool released Smart Node v1.23.0, an upgrade flagged as high priority for Besu users and medium priority for Nimbus users. Node operators are advised to review the changelog on GitHub before installing.
Rocket Pool released Smart Node v1.22.1, an upgrade that is high priority for Besu users and medium priority for Reth and Erigon users. The bloXroute Max Profit relay has also been deprecated, so node operators are advised to review their relay selection after upgrading. Full changelog is available on GitHub.
Rocket Pool's Smart Node v1.21.0 includes high-priority security fixes for Lighthouse users plus several new features: Rolling History Expiry to reduce disk usage, Telegram notification functionality, and Erigon as a new execution client option.
Rocket Pool has published an indicative timeline for Saturn 2 on the DAO governance forum, officially starting the countdown for its next big upgrade. The timeline shows how nine RPIPs will be delivered across three devnets.
A snapshot vote is live for RPIP-84, which proposes establishing a platform-independent framework for pDAO votes that are not conducted onchain. If the proposal passes, signalling will migrate to RocketDash.
Rocket Pool's latest Smart Node v1.20.8 brings client updates, bug fixes, and new features. It is a high-priority upgrade for Lighthouse, Lodestar, Besu, and Reth users, medium priority for Prysm users and those recovering large wallets, and low priority otherwise.
Rocket Pool has published a comprehensive post on the DAO governance forum detailing the current status of Saturn 2, its next major protocol upgrade, alongside the next steps. Four governance polls are now live to help shape how Saturn 2 progresses.
Rocket Pool has published its latest protocol development roadmap update for May to July on the DAO governance forum. The update covers Glamsterdam, Saturn 2, and ePBS, along with other planned work over the period.
Saturn 1 launched on mainnet on February 18, 2026, cutting the minimum validator bond from 8 to 4 ETH, introducing megapools, and activating a protocol-wide RPL fee switch that routes ~9% of protocol revenue to staked RPL holders in ETH.
On October 28, 2024, a tokenomics upgrade let node operators launch validators with just 8 ETH (24 ETH matched from liquid stakers) without an RPL bond; RPL staking became optional but boosted ETH commission returns.
Rocket Pool's second major upgrade, Atlas, launched on April 18, 2023, halving the minipool bond from 16 ETH to 8 ETH and making the protocol compatible with Ethereum's Shanghai withdrawals.
Deployed ahead of Ethereum's Merge, Redstone was Rocket Pool's first significant protocol upgrade since mainnet, introducing priority fee distribution, an updated rewards system with a Smoothing Pool, and removing the rETH transfer delay.
After postponing its originally scheduled October 6, 2021 launch to fix a staking vulnerability, Rocket Pool went live on mainnet on November 9, 2021, enabling permissionless liquid staking (rETH) and 16 ETH minipool node staking.
After a September presale, Rocket Pool opened its final public RPL token sale on November 25, 2017, running into December (concluding around early January 2018), representing the protocol's main token fundraiser.
Rocket Pool was first conceived in late 2016 as a decentralised, permissionless staking protocol for Ethereum; official documentation states it was first conceived in late 2016 and has been live since October 2021.
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