hard fork
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For the first time, a major Ethereum hard fork launches on another chain first
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Ethereum Dencun will enable Ethereum transactions to be submitted as blobs, potentially alleviating the costs of posting data on the blockchain
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Ethereum core developers are working through issues with the next suite of upgrades, featuring EIP-4844
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BitVM paper shows how Bitcoin can anchor off-chain smart contracts, but with caveats
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Rune Christensen’s latest MakerDAO proposal explores a Solana fork to launch a new blockchain
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A DAO analyst tells Blockworks lack of voter participation should not be perceived as a necessarily bad side of decentralized governance
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Bucking the naysayers, developers on Ethereum’s All Core Devs call sounded optimistic, Thursday
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The Ethereum Merge is expected to induce a period of high volatility in the crypto markets, with some anticipating a move to the downside
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Controversial Tron founder Justin Sun has so far struggled to garner significant interest in his set of forked ether tokens
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Software engineers successfully deployed a fix to the nascent blockchain network.
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All hands on deck to fix bug created by an old version of the Geth client, which is used by 75% of the Ethereum nodes
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Ether briefly enters a deflationary cycle as more blocks were burned than issued during one cycle.
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There wasn’t a chain split, a price crash, or the end of the world’s computer as miners went along with forking Ethereum and integrated EIP-1559 as part of the London Hard Fork. But Institutional investors are now casting a wary eye on something called MEV.
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Nearly 70% of the clients on the network signal support for EIP-1559, but opposition is abound.
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Days before the London Hard Fork and EIP-1559 is scheduled to be enabled, options data from Derebit suggests Ether will hit $5000 by the end of the year, if not by the close of September
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