# Features
Feature is a functionality added to the Waves blockchain during a new release.
Features have names and unique IDs and can be enabled by setting supported parameter in the features section of the node configuration file. For details see Features Settings section of the Node Configuration article.
You can get the list of features and their statuses using the GET /activation/status operation of Node REST API.
Waves Mainnet nodes currently support the following features:
| Feature ID | Name | Description | Blockchain Height* | Activation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minimum Generating Balance of 1000 WAVES | Min generating balance of the mining account has to be 1000 WAVES, for the accout to generate blocks | 810,000 | Dec 2017 |
| 2 | NG Protocol | Transition to Waves NG protocol | 805,000 | Dec 2017 |
| 3 | Mass Transfer Transaction | Introduction of mass transfer transaction | 940,000 | Mar 2018 |
| 4 | Smart Accounts | Introduction of smart accounts | 1,190,000 | Sep 2018 |
| 5 | Data Transaction | Introduction of data transactions | 1,060,000 | Jun 2018 |
| 6 | Burn Any Tokens | Ability of the issuer to burn tokens | 1,070,000 | Jul 2018 |
| 7 | Fee Sponsorship | Introduction of sponsor transactions | 1,080,000 | Jul 2018 |
| 8 | Fair PoS | Changes in PoS protocol. The share of generated blocks must match the share of the node generating balance | 1,100,000 | Jul 2018 |
| 9 | Smart Assets | Introduction of smart assets | 1,340,000 | Jan 2019 |
| 10 | Smart Account Trading | Ability to place smart account orders. The Matched-account can be smart account or dApp | 1,340,000 | Jan 2019 |
| 11 | RIDE 4 DAPPS | Improvements of Ride language. Added [functions]. Introduced script invocation transaction | 1,610,000 | Jul 2019 |
| 12 | Order Version 3 | Ability to set order comission in any token | 1 610 000 | Jul 2019 |
| 13 | Reduce NFT fee | If the amount of token in the issuing transaction is 1, the number of decimal places is 0, and the token cannot be reissued, then the commission for such a transaction will be 0.001 WAVES instead of 1 | 1,610,000 | Jul 2019 |
| 14 | Block Reward and Community Driven Monetary Policy | Introduction of mining reward | 1,740,000 | Oct 2019 |
| 15 | Ride V4, VRF, Protobuf, Failed transactions | • Ride Standard library version 4. • Added Update Asset Info transaction. • Blocks generation using VRF (Verifiable random function). • Signing only the block header by the generating node. • SNARK verifier support. • Transaction binary format based on protobuf. • Saving invoke script transactions and exchange transaction with failed script result. See complete list of changes in the Release Notes article | 2,230,000 | Sep 2020 |
| 16 | Ride V5, dApp-to-dApp invocations | • Ride Standard library version 5. • dApp-to-dApp invocation. • BigInt data type. See complete list of changes in the Release Notes article | 2,650,000 | June 2021 |
| 17 | Ride V6, MetaMask support | • Ride Standard library version 6. • Added support for Ethereum-like transactions that perform token transfers or dApp script invocations and orders with ECDSA signature in Exchange transactions. See complete list of changes in the Release Notes article | 3,180,000 | June 2022 |
| 18 | Consensus and Metamask updates | • Improved support for orders and transactions signed by MetaMask and by Ledger devices via MetaMask. • Improved support for SetScript transactions containing longer Ride scripts. • Genesis block signer will no longer get block reward even if feature # 14 is pre-activated (this affects custom networks only) | 3,540,000 | March 2023 |
| 19 | Block Reward Distribution | Block reward is shared equally between the block generator, Waves DAO, and the XTN buy-back contract | 3,720,000 | July 2023 |
| 20 | Capped XTN buy-back & DAO amounts | Block reward distribution is adjusted: in particular, Waves DAO and XTN buy-back reward amounts are capped at 2 WAVES (more details in Release Notes) | 3,750,000 | July 2023 |
| 21 | Cease XTN buy-back | The XTN buy-back smart contract's share of the block reward is set to 0 | ||
| 22 | Light Node | • Added a light mode for node operation. • Released version 8 of the Ride Standard library. • Disabled the ability to assign scripts using Standard library versions 1–3 to accounts and assets. See the full list of changes in the Release Notes article | 4,090,000 | March 2024 |
| 23 | Boost Block Reward | Block reward temporarily increases 10 times |
# Feature Status
Each feature can have one of the three statuses:
- Voting
- Approved
- Activated
# Activation of New Features
Feature activation protocol is a procedure according to which a new feature gets activated, i.e. it gets the "activated" status.
Activation process consists of voting and activation. Each mining node (which generates blocks) can vote for a new feature by having the voting parameter set in its configuration file. Such node generates blocks that contain the vote for the feature. See example and more details in Activation Protocol article.
If there are not less than 8000 blocks on Mainnet (2700 on Testnet and 40 on Stagenet) with support of the feature during the voting period (every 10000 blocks on Mainnet, 3000 on Testnet and 100 on Stagenet), the feature gets "approved" status on the blockchain. An "approved" feature becomes "activated" after another 10000 blocks on Mainnet (3000 on Testnet and 100 on Stagenet). Then the feature starts working and all the nodes which can not support such feature (old versions) stop.
For more details see Activation protocol article.