Tag: Fork
Ethereum devs create ‘shadow fork’ to test conditions for Ether withdrawals
As the proposed date for the Ethereum Shanghai update draws closer, developers have created a testing environment called a “shadow fork,” according to [...]
Latest Ethereum ‘Shadow Fork’ Brings Blockchain’s Shanghai Upgrade Closer to Reality
In the hours since the fork happened, there were some glitches with Ethereum's nodes that use Geth clients, according to Marius Van Der Wijden, a soft [...]
Polygon Completes Hard Fork to Reduce Gas-Fee Spikes, Disruptive Reorgs
The second proposal aims to reduce the amount of time it takes to finalize a data block – part of an effort to prevent frequent reorgs, which occur wh [...]
Polygon primed for hard fork aimed at reducing gas fee spikes: New details revealed
Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon will undergo a hard fork on Jan. 17 in order to address gas spikes and chain reorganizations issues that has [...]
Ethereum ‘shark’ accumulation, Shanghai hard fork put $2K ETH price in play
Ether (ETH) price technicals suggest that 35% gains are in play by March 2022 due to several bullish technical and fundamental factors.Ethereum price [...]
Bitcoin Cash Jumps 10% Ahead of Optimistic May Hard Fork
Other proposed improvements already locked in include smaller transaction sizes – which help speed up transactional times – and smart contracts functi [...]
Crypto Traders Are Already Placing Bets on Ethereum’s ‘Shanghai Hard Fork’
Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer at the digital-asset management firm Arca: “Most investors have heard of blockchain now and want to somehow make [...]
Polygon’s Blockchain To Undergo Hard Fork
To address its problem of relatively frequent reorgs, Polygon wants to reduce the amount of time it takes to finalize a block to verify successful tra [...]
Ethereum developers target March 2023 for Shanghai hard fork
According to a discussion at the 151st Ethereum Core Developers Meeting on Dec. 8, core programmers set a tentative deadline of March 2023 for the Sha [...]
Serum’s SRM Tokens Double in Price After Emergency Fork in Wake of FTX Hack
The Serum token price rose as high as 32 cents, from a low of 12 cents just two days ago, as community members of the decentralized exchange scrambled [...]
Will Censorship Fork Ethereum?
Disagreement around how to handle sanctions on Ethereum may soon force the chain to split into two: one chain censored, one not. Valid Points is CoinD [...]
BNB Smart Chain to hard fork following $100M exploit
The upgrade is intended to fix the exploit that drained the platform of $100 million.
A [...]
BNB Smart Chain to Perform Hard Fork as Fix for $100M Exploit
A hard fork is a change to a blockchain protocol that renders older versions invalid. It may be performed when a network makes fundamental changes to [...]
Ethereum fork token ETHPoW climbs 150% after smart contract hack — A fakeout rally?
ETHW has logged a significant price rebound despite its blockchain network, ETHPoW, suffering a smart contract hack in the first week after its launch [...]
Cardano bulls run out of steam after Vasil hard fork — 40% ADA price crash in play
Cardano's (ADA) long-awaited Vasil update went live on Sept. 22, which promises to make its blockchain more scalable and cheaper than before. However, [...]