On June 19, the Ethereum Classic community announced that the Atlantis hard fork is now in its testing stage.
To reverse the malicious transactions, Ethereum hard forked and thus gave birth to Ethereum Classic.
According to the blog post of Ethereum Classic Labs, the upcoming hard fork is aimed at presenting secure high-quality blockchain software while taking into account the community's concerns.
As for ETC Labs' blog post, "The ETC community has shown great attention to and support" for the hard fork.
On June 11, after an intermediate scheduling call, stakeholders from North America, Europe, and Asia agreed upon the hard fork's timetable: It was decided that ETC Kotti and ETC Morden testnets would be activated at blocks number 716,617 and 4,729,274 respectively, and finally the hard fork would be implemented at block 8,500,000.
ETC Labs announced that the hard fork would then be set to occur on block height number 8,772,000 to have more parties involved in implementation.
The mission of the hard fork is to pull ETC up to ETH's latest protocol enabling easier interoperability between them.
The Atlantis hard fork proposal on GitHub points out that "Establishing and maintaining interoperable behavior between Ethereum clients is essential for developers and end-user adoption, yielding benefits for all participating chains."
Commenting on the origin of the proposed features, executive director at ETCC, Bob Summerwill, stressed that "All of the Atlantis changes are from ETH, rather than being anything new specific to ETC." He also confirmed the proposed date of hard fork, Sept. 17: "Yes, the deadline is realistic."
Ethereum Classic is on the verge of a new stage of technological advancement, and the community has big expectations regarding changes proposed by the Atlantis hard fork.
Discovering Atlantis: Ethereum Classic Hard Fork and What Will Change
Published on Jun 28, 2019
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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