The Atlantis hard fork for Ethereum Classic (ETC) has been officially set to occur at block 8,772,000 on the blockchain, according to the Ethereum Classic Improvement Protocol (ECIP) finalization call via Discord on June 20.
As
per the discussions in the call, the developers and contributors had
previously considered putting the hard fork at block number 8.75
million, which is predicted to run on September 15.
However, since
the 15th is a Sunday, ETC Labs moved to increase the block number in
order to have the projected update during the week, when more involved
parties, such as exchanges and developers, are more likely be present to
discover and deal with any issues that may arise.
Since the
release is still several months away, the block number is an imperfect
estimate of date; nonetheless, the number has been moved up with the aim
of the hardfork arriving on Tuesday, September 17, around noon UST.
The decision appeared to be unanimous.
An official ETC blog post
proposed this shift on June 19, which noted block 8.772 million for an
intended fork date of approximately September 17. Today’s discussion
further solidifies that number.
The post also notes that
Atlantis is currently undergoing testing to weed out any bugs or other
unwelcome consequences from introducing the new hard fork code to ETC’s
original scheme.
The post also notes the following as main priorities of the upcoming hardfork:
“(1) develop high-quality blockchain software that preserves the security of the network
(2) consider the opinions and concerns of the community.”
ETC itself is the original Ethereum
blockchain, which is named Classic in response to Ethereum carrying out
a hard fork in 2016. This happened amid the collapse of Ethereum-based
project “The DAO” after a major hack exploited its security flaws.
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