Ethereum Successfully Completes Its Istanbul Hard Fork
Istanbul is Ethereum’s eighth hard fork that comes with six Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), including EIPs 152, 1108, 1344, 1844, 2028 and 2200.
Istanbul is Ethereum’s eighth hard fork that comes with six Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), including EIPs 152, 1108, 1344, 1844, 2028 and 2200.
Ethereum testnet Ropsten has hardforked following an earlier than scheduled release of the Istanbul upgrade of the world’s second most popular blockchain.
With all the buzz going around about hard forks this week we thought it would only be fitting if we dedicated this week’s column to the three biggest hard forks on our radar.
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After two delays, the Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks have finally gone live. With this release, four different Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) have been officially activated.
In less than 12 hours, Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks will go live. But before any network upgrades are applied to the main network, they take place on test networks, such as Ropsten.
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Though the Constantinople hard fork has been already postponed twice now it is expected to occur together with the St. Petersburg upgrade this week.
At a recent blockchain conference that happened in San Franciso, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum creator, answered a question about whether an Ethereum upgrade would have “any transaction throughput goals.”