diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 89b3fcc6a..68aaccd11 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -22,7 +22,13 @@
 
 // network protocol versioning
 // DragonX 1.0.0 - bumped to separate from old HUSH/DragonX nodes with RandomX bug
-static const int PROTOCOL_VERSION = 2000000;
+// DragonX 1.3.0 - bumped for the consensus changes in this release (BLOCK_VALID_CONTEXT
+//                 no longer overwrites the validity level, the dead CBOPRET coinbase
+//                 price check is gone, and pow.cpp lost 157 lines). MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION
+//                 is deliberately NOT raised: it currently equals this value, and raising
+//                 it would disconnect every node still on v1.0.3 -- which is all users,
+//                 since no release has ever been installable (unsigned archives).
+static const int PROTOCOL_VERSION = 2000001;
 //! initial proto version, to be increased after version/verack negotiation
 static const int INIT_PROTO_VERSION = 209;
 //! In this version, 'getheaders' was introduced.