From discord:
Hello @everyone!
:confetti_ball: Theres just over a week left until the SHIELD v3 upgrade! :confetti_ball:
SHIELD v3 is a complex upgrade, which brings:
A brand new codebase based on Bitcoin Core v0.16.1!
A new difficulty algorithm for fairer mining!
A SHIELD Testnet deployment!
Masternodes! (enters public testing phase on Testnet at block #800K)
and a 6th mining algorithm (!!)
Masternodes on Mainnet will be released after public testing is complete!