Updates to Bitcoin Cash BCH 2025 Network Upgrade CHIPs

These 2 CHIPs are on track for activation in May 2025:

• CHIP-2021-05-vm-limits: Targeted Virtual Machine Limits (link to discussion on BCR)
• CHIP-2024-07-BigInt: High-Precision Arithmetic for Bitcoin Cash (link to discussion on BCR

Link to previous post about these CHIPs

Link to previous update about BigInt CHIP

Since then:

• GP have engaged in review process about both (VM limits comment) and (BigInt comment) CHIPs.
• Calin & I have created a property testing suite (WIP) for math ops. I'm implementing the tests according to a draft test plan, and I hope to complete implementing all the tests ASAP. What is property testing? It's how you can test math system as a whole, e.g. we know that (a + b) - b == a must hold no matter what, so we run this script: OP_2DUP OP_ADD OP_SWAP OP_SUB OP_NUMEQUAL and we test it for many random values of a and b (such that a + b submitted by