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- The Injective IIP-619 proposal became effective, and a major upgrade of the mainnet will occur on February 19, 15:00 UTC, to scale the real-time EVM architecture.
- INJ price shot up over 13% after the vote, with traders watching the next resistance points.
Injective’s INJ token climbed more than 13% after the network confirmed that the IIP-619 mainnet upgrade proposal passed. Trading moved higher during the session as participants positioned for the scheduled network upgrade on February 19 at 15:00 UTC (9:00 a.m. EST). The vote approval authorizes a coordinated software rollout that requires validators to upgrade and restart the chain at a target block height.
Injective uses INJ for network fees, staking, and token-weighted governance, so upgrade votes are tied to the staked supply. The proposal’s passage formalizes the activation path rather than leaving it as a discretionary roadmap item. The approval also gives exchanges and infrastructure teams a window to prepare for the halt-and-restart sequence.
The new Injective Mainnet Upgrade proposal (IIP-619) has officially passed!
This aims to significantly scale Injective's real-time EVM architecture while also enhancing its capabilities to support next-gen payments.
February 19 at 9 AM EST (15:00 UTC). pic.twitter.com/kaOnK6ZSWx
— Injective 🥷 (@injective) February 18, 2026
The update will expand Injective’s real-time Ethereum Virtual Machine environment while improving support for payment-focused use cases. Injective also tied the change to performance work across its MultiVM design, which runs multiple execution environments under one network. Developers building EVM-compatible applications on Injective are expected to see improved execution consistency once the chain resumes.
Governance trackers for the proposal describe a planned halt at block 154,983,000, followed by a restart using Injective Chain v1.18.0. Because the trigger is block-based, exact timing can vary slightly. Even so, the published schedule gives validators, wallets, and node operators a common reference point for operational readiness.
Earlier in the year, Korea University joined the Injective ecosystem as a node validator and research collaborator through its Blockchain Research Institute. We reported that the two partners will work on research and development focused on real-world asset tokenization.
Injective’s Scheduled Halt and Validator Coordination
Alongside the EVM scaling work, the proposal includes updates aimed at improving real-world asset workflows that depend on oracle pricing. The documentation references optimization of integrations that use Chainlink oracles for real-time data feeds. It also cites a widened common liquidity layer to bridge liquidity between modules and applications without each venue having to coordinate separately.
Following the approval, the implementation process becomes less about governance and more about execution. Validators will deploy the new binary before the halt and coordinate the restart. Onchain users may experience a brief disruption during the planned pause.
CNF earlier reported that Injective’s monthly Community BuyBack lets eligible users commit INJ through the Injective Hub to receive pro-rata rewards funded by ecosystem revenue. After each round, all committed INJ is permanently burned, reducing supply, while rewards are distributed in INJ, USDT, and other supported onchain tokens.
After the sharp INJ price rally, the token fell to about $3.28, bringing its gains over the past 24 hours to 6.72% at press time. Meanwhile, 24-hour trading volume rose to about $209 million, up roughly 585%.
