this is just step 2/5, can't wait for November ;)
Step 2 of SIMD-0437 rent reduction is coming to mainnet-beta at ~21:15 UTC on September 11.
Lamports per byte drops 6,333 → 5,080 at epoch 1033. With step 2, rent will have dropped 27% from its initial value.
As a reminder, there is no fixed schedule between gates. Step 3 will activate only after state growth safely checks out. SIMD-0438 standing by as the reverse gear if needed.
Three gates remain.