Dencun, the biggest upgrade since the Merge, has just gone live on the Ethereum network.
Hard Fork News
During a hard fork, blockchain networks split into two different chains. A cryptocurrency hard fork results in two blockchains, in addition to two separate assets: the original and the forked asset. Cryptocurrency hard forks can be a benign, consensual upgrade spearheaded by the community, or the culmination of bitter debates that split a community into two separate chains and assets.
Multiple notable contentious hard forks have occurred over the years. In 2016, as the result of a hard fork, Ethereum (ETH) split in two, resulting in Ethereum and Ethereum Classic (ETC). And in 2017, due to another hard fork, Bitcoin (BTC) split into Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Developers may cooperatively implement hard forks based on consensus from multiple parties. Communities may choose to hard fork cryptocurrency for a number of reasons, such as improving network speed.
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Ethereum’s Dencun hard fork includes EIP-4844, an upgrade that reduces the costs of layer-2 rollups.
2470The technology required to make Ethereum immune from a quantum attack could be developed starting “tomorrow,” said Buterin.
8523Ethereum’s next set of hard forks is anticipated to benefit layer-2 scaling protocols significantly by reducing storage costs.
10811Blob-carrying transactions are like normal transactions except that they carry an extra piece of data — the intended effect: more block space and cheaper transactions.
5412Ethereum's Dencun upgrade, which introduces “proto-danksharding,” was successfully deployed on the Holesky testnet on Feb. 7.
3431The lack of selling pressure from miners will be one of the main catalysts boosting ETH's price to unprecedented highs in the current bull cycle.
9585ETH’s rally is backed by increased on-chain activity and the markets’ anticipation of a network upgrade and spot ETF, but is this enough?
10685The Bitcoin Core v27 update is aiming to eject Ordinals from the Bitcoin blockchain. Proponents of the phenomenon should fork to their own chain.
2251A hard fork proposed by Arweave’s largest layer-2 solution, Irys, is allegedly in the making.
2257Binance’s BNB Chain is set for two upgrades aimed at improving the finality of the network and compatibility with other EVM blockchains.
4634The BNB Beacon Chain mainnet is set to undergo the “ZhangHeng” hard fork around July 19, which will bring new upgrades aimed at improving security.
7420Bitcoin forks, BCH, BSV and XEC rallied over the last 30 days while KAS and FLEX led among altcoin gainers in June, but data questions the sustainability of their rallies.
2733The top 100 DeFi tokens didn’t see much change in price over the past week, with the majority posting minor weekly gains.
4510The v19 hard fork didn’t go as planned for the privacy coin, but a fix has been released; v18 had experienced a few kinks, too.
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