diff --git a/blast-geth/cmd/geth/config.go b/blast-geth/cmd/geth/config.go
index 237d646c..3846e088 100644
--- a/blast-geth/cmd/geth/config.go
+++ b/blast-geth/cmd/geth/config.go
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ func defaultNodeConfig() node.Config {
 	cfg.Version = params.VersionWithCommit(git.Commit, git.Date)
 	cfg.HTTPModules = append(cfg.HTTPModules, "eth")
 	cfg.WSModules = append(cfg.WSModules, "eth")
-	cfg.IPCPath = "geth.ipc"
+	cfg.IPCPath = "blast.ipc"
 	return cfg
 }
 
diff --git a/blast-geth/cmd/geth/main.go b/blast-geth/cmd/geth/main.go
index 0eac5308..94f6876a 100644
--- a/blast-geth/cmd/geth/main.go
+++ b/blast-geth/cmd/geth/main.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	clientIdentifier = "geth" // Client identifier to advertise over the network
+	clientIdentifier = "blast" // Client identifier to advertise over the network
 )
 
 var (
diff --git a/blast-geth/node/config.go b/blast-geth/node/config.go
index dd350c36..4aa2b4f1 100644
--- a/blast-geth/node/config.go
+++ b/blast-geth/node/config.go
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ func (c *Config) NodeName() string {
 	// Backwards compatibility: previous versions used title-cased "Geth", keep that.
 	if name == "geth" || name == "geth-testnet" {
 		name = "Geth"
+	} else if name == "blast" {
+		name = "Blast"
 	}
 	if c.UserIdent != "" {
 		name += "/" + c.UserIdent
diff --git a/blast-geth/node/node_test.go b/blast-geth/node/node_test.go
index 04810a81..1c2f1584 100644
--- a/blast-geth/node/node_test.go
+++ b/blast-geth/node/node_test.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/p2p"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc"
 
+	pble "github.com/cockroachdb/pebble"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
 
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ func TestNodeCloseClosesDB(t *testing.T) {
 	stack, _ := New(testNodeConfig())
 	defer stack.Close()
 
-	db, err := stack.OpenDatabase("mydb", 0, 0, "", false)
+	db, err := stack.OpenDatabase("mydb", 0, 0, "", false, pble.FormatMostCompatible)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal("can't open DB:", err)
 	}
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ func TestNodeOpenDatabaseFromLifecycleStart(t *testing.T) {
 	var err error
 	stack.RegisterLifecycle(&InstrumentedService{
 		startHook: func() {
-			db, err = stack.OpenDatabase("mydb", 0, 0, "", false)
+			db, err = stack.OpenDatabase("mydb", 0, 0, "", false, pble.FormatMostCompatible)
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatal("can't open DB:", err)
 			}
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ func TestNodeOpenDatabaseFromLifecycleStop(t *testing.T) {
 
 	stack.RegisterLifecycle(&InstrumentedService{
 		stopHook: func() {
-			db, err := stack.OpenDatabase("mydb", 0, 0, "", false)
+			db, err := stack.OpenDatabase("mydb", 0, 0, "", false, pble.FormatMostCompatible)
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatal("can't open DB:", err)
 			}
diff --git a/blast-geth/params/version.go b/blast-geth/params/version.go
index 499a61c8..b3e103f8 100644
--- a/blast-geth/params/version.go
+++ b/blast-geth/params/version.go
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ const (
 
 // OPVersion is the version of op-geth
 var (
-	OPVersionMajor = 0          // Major version component of the current release
-	OPVersionMinor = 1          // Minor version component of the current release
-	OPVersionPatch = 0          // Patch version component of the current release
-	OPVersionMeta  = "unstable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
+	OPVersionMajor = 1        // Major version component of the current release
+	OPVersionMinor = 8        // Minor version component of the current release
+	OPVersionPatch = 0        // Patch version component of the current release
+	OPVersionMeta  = "stable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
 )
 
 // This is set at build-time by the linker when the build is done by build/ci.go.