Tagged: Hard Fork

November 10, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem’s recent developments span experimental defenses against future quantum threats, rare solo mining successes, continued corporate accumulation, ETF capital movements, and a high-profile hard fork that distributed new units to existing holders. On November 4, 2026, Bitcoin developer Cory Fields posted to the… Read More

July 6, 2026 @ 1:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has detailed plans for a sweeping, multi-year transformation of the blockchain and smart contract focused protocol that he describes as the network’s third major evolutionary phase. In a July 4, 2026 post on X, Buterin characterized the effort—internally referred to as… Read More

April 7, 2026 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon is preparing to roll out a significant network upgrade known as the Giugliano hard fork, designed to deliver noticeably quicker transaction finality across its proof-of-stake chain. Scheduled to activate on April 8 at block height 85,268,500—approximately 2 p.m. UTC—this change represents the latest step… Read More

January 27, 2026 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNB Smart Chain has rolled out the Fermi hard fork, marking a pivotal upgrade that reportedly propels the network into its most advanced phase to date. This development slashes block production time from 0.75 seconds to a mere 0.45 seconds, all while ensuring the system… Read More

September 21, 2022 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vasil is an enhancement of the Cardano platform, “improving scalability and lowering transaction costs” It improves on the Plutus smart contract platform, “allowing developers to deploy more complex smart contracts,” according to an update shared by Poloniex. It is “scheduled to ship on September 22nd,… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ETC Group, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading specialist providers of institutional-grade digital asset-backed securities, has announced that it will “list a new exchange traded product on XETRA based on the imminent hard fork of Ethereum and ETHW (the native asset to the… Read More

December 29, 2020 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange Huobi noted earlier this month that the ongoing upgrade of Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest platform for building decentralized applications (dApps), is expected to make the original smart contract enabled blockchain “much more usable, scalable, and effective” — but it will also… Read More

December 6, 2020 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The development team at Cardano (ADA), a major DLT network for building decentralized applications or dApps, notes that the platform’s development has been conceived as “a journey involving five overlapping development themes, each of which is underpinned by a consensus protocol – Ouroboros.” Kevin Hammond,… Read More

November 11, 2020 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange OKCoin confirmed that it will be supporting the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork (backwards incompatible upgrade) which will take place on November 15, 2020. The OKCoin team noted that they’ll provide an airdrop of the minority chain’s asset. Hard forks of… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Ocean Protocol, which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, confirmed (on September 28) that on September 27, 2020, the Ocean Protocol Foundation had initiated a hard fork or backward-incompatible… Read More

August 30, 2020 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Qtum (QTUM), a platform for developing decentralized applications that aims to leverage certain technical aspects related to the security of the Bitcoin (BTC) network while providing smart contract functionality (somewhat similar to Ethereum), claims that there are only a few pieces of… Read More