This episode examines Flare’s FIP.16 governance proposal, which cuts annual inflation from five percent to three percent and introduces the Flare Income Reinvestment Entity to capture protocol level MEV for buybacks and burns. The briefing covers the mandatory Avalanche 1.13.0 protocol upgrade with an April fourteenth node synchronization deadline and breaking validator API changes. Network metrics show one hundred sixty four million dollars in TVL and one hundred fifty million FXRP deployed, while FLR token price reached an all time low in March. The roadmap through twenty twenty six includes Firelight Phase Two with XRP staking and DeFi cover, followed by Flare 2.0 introducing Trusted Execution Environments and Protocol Managed Wallets for confidential compute capabilities.
