This proposal aims to upgrade the Astar Network to runtime 1500, introducing important improvements and aligning with the latest Polkadot SDK release.

🔧 Key Changes in Runtime 1500 Upgrade:

• ✅ Upgrade to Polkadot SDK stable2412-4
  • Includes XCM v5 with full removal of deprecated XCM v2
  • New runtime API for trusted reserve/teleporter asset queries
• ✅EVM Compatibility
  • Adds support for the EVM Cancun hard fork
  • Optional SQL backend support for improved Frontier EVM indexing
• ✅ dApp Staking Improvements
  • Introduces max tier thresholds for more refined dApp staking behavior
• 🔄 Other: Upgrades to pallet_identity, CI/test cleanup, and doc updates

📦 Runtime Notes:

🔗 Astar Runtime 1500 on GitHub