Berachain Schedules PoL Next Mainnet Upgrade for July 7–8

Berachain Foundation said the PoL Next upgrade will go live on the mainnet from July 7 to 8, introducing changes to tokens and incentive mechanisms. According to Foresight News, the foundation announced the timeline in a post on X. The upgrade will deprecate the BGT token, phasing out the governance token used in the original Proof-of-Liquidity model along with the related Boost mechanism. Under PoL Next, BERA will become the primary economic unit, while sWBERA will serve as a new value-accrual layer intended to concentrate protocol rewards for long-term participants. The upgrade will also introduce an ERAs mechanism. Under this approach, projects must demonstrate real on-chain revenue and utility to receive token emission incentives, rather than competing through Boost voting.