The privacy coin of choice for the darknet has seen a surge in price in the last 24 hours, although the jury is still out as to the cause. Monero has seen an 11% rally, compared to bitcoin’s 4% drop a...
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Privacy-Centric Monero Plans for July Hard Fork, Plans Include Ring Signature, Bulletproof Upgrade – Bitcoin News
According to a recent update on Monero’s Github repository, the privacy-centric crypto network plans to hard fork in July, at block height 2,668,888. Monero is the largest privacy crypto asset in term...
Monero community passes consensus to initiate mainnet hard fork
Monero (XMR) developers have announced that the network has passed a community consensus to implement a mainnet hard fork. The hard fork will come with multiple changes for the Monero network. Monero ...
Monero Community Hard Fork Slated for July, Increases Chain’s Ring Size
Monero developers revealed that the July hard fork will add view tags to outputs to reduce wallet scanning time, and introduce bulletproofs. According to recent reports by Monero (XMR) developers, the...
Monero Network Reaches Community Consensus For July Hard Fork
Developers of the Monero Network have announced that the privacy-focused blockchain protocol has reached a community consensus in which a mainnet hard fork will be implemented at block height 2,668,88...
Prior to its hard fork, should you buy the DCR token now?
Decred DCR/USD is a forked version of the Bitcoin BTC/USD protocol; however, it is specifically designed to improve the organization as well as the decentralization of the cryptocurrency. The main way...
XMR reaches consensus for July hard fork, could this lead to an increased value?
Monero XMR/USD is a decentralized, privacy-enhancing blockchain network. The main goal of this blockchain network is to make transaction details, such as the amount of every transaction, anonymous thr...
Monero community reaches consensus for July hard fork
As told by Monero (XMR) developers over the weekend, on July 16, the Monero network passed a community consensus to initiate a mainnet hard fork at block height 2,668,888. The popular privacy coinR...
Decred price soars 45% in one day three weeks before a major hard fork
Decred (DCR) prices soared by as much as 45% on April 18 before paring some gains as traders bet on a major hard fork that aims to prevent pump-and-dump schemes by miners. Key Decred network upgrade ...
Blockchain, the differences between hard fork, soft fork and sidechain
When speaking of hard forks, soft forks or sidechains, we generally refer to forks in the chain that are in some ways similar, but in reality quite different. Hard fork, soft fork and sidechain, the d...
DeFiChain’s Anticipated Fort Canning Road Hard Fork Goes Live
[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, 11th April 2022] DeFiChain, the world’s leading blockchain on the Bitcoin network dedicated to bringing decentralized financial applications and services to ever...
Cardano’s Vasil Hard Fork Expected In June; Here’s What To Expect
Cardano has hit a major milestone in its journey to the June Hardfork Combinator Event (HFC). John Woods, director of Cardano architecture at IOG, announced that all the features to be introduced in t...
Here’s What Users Should Expect From the Upcoming Vasil Hard Fork
Charles Hoskinson explains why he thinks the upcoming Vasil hardfork will be a milestone Cardano’s IOG team is working to offer new products and features to its users Customers can soon expect a DApp ...
Cardano price risks 30% drop in Q2 despite a ‘major’ hard fork ahead
Cardano (ADA) price risks undergoing a severe correction in the next few months despite touting its blockchain network’s bolstering growth and a “major” hard fork event in June. Desc...
Cardano Founder Says The Vasil Hard Fork Will Improve The Network Immensely
Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson has expressed optimism that the upcoming Vasil Hard Fork will be a massive performance improvement for the platform. He remarked on a “recap video” he posted on his Y...
What can we expect after Cardano’s Vasil hard fork?
Cardano ADA/USD is a blockchain platform that serves the role of enabling decentralized application (dApp) development with a multi-asset ledger alongside verifiable smart-contract functionality. Card...
Cardano Founder Explains What Users Should Expect From the Upcoming Vasil Hard Fork
On April 12, Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, posted a “recap video” on his YouTube channel, explaining the new update that will make Cardano better after the “Vasil” hard fork. At the beginning...
Ethereum Merge Trials Successfully On Shadow Fork
Ethereum’s upgrade from a PoW mechanism to PoS successfully completed the essential Merge testing stage, which was trialed on a shadow fork. Shadow Fork Testing Successful The shadow fork is a privat...
Ethereum’s Merge Is So Close As First Mainnet Shadow Fork Goes Live
On Monday, April 11, Ethereum developers conducted the first Proof-of-Stake test on the Ethereum blockchain. This deployment was named “mainnet shadow fork” by Ethereum developer Marius van der Wijden...
Ethereum’s Shadow Fork Sees Success as the Network Prepares for the Merge – crypto.news
Following yesterday’s mainnet shadow fork, Ethereum is inching closer to becoming a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus network. Meanwhile, the price of Ethereum has started to stabilize following a week o...
Ethereum Devs Now Testing ETH 2.0 Upgrade on ‘Shadow Fork’
The Ethereum Foundation got a step closer to deploying Ethereum 2.0 and has been using “shadow forks” to make its testnet more closely resemble the Ethereum mainnet. Over the weekend, Ethereum DevOps ...
Ethereum Launch “Shadow Fork” Ahead Of Merge
The Ethereum Foundation continues to edge closer to the transition to the proof-of-stake (PoS) model. On Monday, Ethereum’s first mainnet Shadow Fork went live. The purpose behind this is to primarily...
Ethereum Mainnet’s Shadow Fork Went Live: A Step Closer To Its Transition To PoS Mechanism
On Tuesday, a shadow fork of the Ethereum mainnet went live, bringing it a step closer to its transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism from proof of work (PoW) for the Ethereum 2.0 upg...
Defichain’s Highly Awaited Hard Fork Goes Live Fixing dTokens Premium
DeFiChain, the world’s leading blockchain on the Bitcoin network dedicated to bringing decentralized financial applications and services to everyone, has officially activated the much-anticipated Fort...
Ethereum Developers Successfully Conduct Shadow Fork Ahead of ‘The Merge’ Upgrade
The shadow fork will allow Ethereum developers to test some key features for the Ethereum 2.0 Proof-of-Stake blockchain. This is like stress-testing the new upcoming software. Ethereum developers cont...
Ethereum tests first mainnet shadow fork in anticipation of Proof-of-Stake
Ethereum’s (ETH) transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus network is creeping closer after the network launched the first mainnet shadow fork on April 11. Ethereum’s PoS shadow fork goes live Ac...
Ethereum Prepares For Merge With The Launch Of Mainnet ‘Shadow Fork’
Ethereum has rolled out the mainnet’s first ‘shadow fork’ in preparation for the much-awaited transition to proof-of-stake protocol. According to the developers, the purpose of the mainnet is to stres...
First Shadow Fork Launches on Ethereum Mainnet,Transition to PoS Gains Steam
The move from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), known as the merge, attained a landmark achievement after the first shadow fork went live on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet. As a the merge’s tri...
DeFiChain’s ‘Fort Canning Road’ Hard Fork is Now Live – crypto.news
Yesterday, DeFiChain announced that its Fort Canning Road hard fork has officially been launched. The launch took place at around 4:36 AM CEST on Monday, April 11th on Block Height 1,785,960. DeFiChai...
DeFiChain Activates Much-Anticipated ‘Fort Canning Road’ Hard Fork
Advertisement     One of the world’s leading blockchains, DeFiChain has just announced the debut of its hotly anticipated Fort Canning Road hard fork on its network. S...
First-Ever Shadow Fork Happens on Ethereum
Vladislav Sopov Right now, Ethereum PoW/PoS merge is being stress tested in a unique “shadow fork,” developers unveiled Contents First mainnet fork ever takes place on Ethereum (ETH): deve...
ETH devs implement first-ever ‘shadow fork’ as PoS testing continues
Ethereum developers implemented the network’s first-ever “shadow fork” on Monday, marking an important milestone in the ongoing shift to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus. The shadow fork provides a v...