EOS Hard Fork in 10 Days, Major Updates for Tron, Neo: CT Analytics

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Cointelegraph Analytics team released a summary of the most anticipated upcoming events for major coins including EOS, Tron and Neo.EOS to have its first hard fork on Sept. 23EOS, the 7th biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, is expected to have its first consensus upgrade on Sept. 23, as EOS block producers agreed to activate EOSIO v1.8 on the EOS Mainnet on the date.

According to major EOS BP EOS Nation, the upcoming event is the largest upgrade to the EOS network since it was launched, and the first update to require a hard fork, which is a split of the source blockchain into two separate networks that will have its own transaction history.

According to EOS Nation, 29 out of 30 top EOS BPs have committed to upgrading at press time.

As noted by Cointelegraph Analytics, apart from small improvements in security and scalability, EOSIO developer company block.

Tron to update the Sun NetworkAccording to Cointelegraph Analytics, Tron is soon expected to release an update for the Sun Network that was officially launched on Aug. 11, 2019.The Sun Network is a sidechain scaling solution that is designed to enhance and ensure a supposedly unlimited scaling capacity of the Tron network.

The solution will purportedly allow decentralized applications to consume less energy and run with higher security and efficiency on Tron.As noted by Cointelegraph Analytics, resource consumption on the sidechain will be 100 times less, which will purportedly lead to a surging number of DApps.

Big Neo update comingNeo, the 20th biggest coin by market cap at press time, will have a major upgrade NEO 3.0 in the second quarter of 2020, as previously reported.

The upgraded Neo version is expected to be launched as a new blockchain network where users will need to swap their existing Neo tokens for new ones.

According to Neo co-founder and core developer Erik Zhang, the update is necessary because a number of architectural improvements to Neo's performance are not compatible with its current blockchain.

Cointelegraph Analytics notes that the current version of the Neo blockchain is only receiving bug fixes and has the simplest set of features, while NEO 3.0 upgrade will have a number of improvements.

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