At the last meeting of developers of the platform for decentralized applications Ethereum, which took place on September 14, a decision was made on the upcoming Constantinople hard fork. The update will be activated for testnet this October. On the mainnet, the upgrade is planned for December.
As previously reported, Constantinople includes changes designed to improve the platform's efficiency, change its economic policies and postpone the so-called "complexity bomb".
The Ropsten cross-client testnet hard fork will be activated around October 9th. Due to the fact that the time of block confirmation in a test environment cannot be predicted, the block number on which activation will be carried out will be announced later.
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin also attended the videoconference. He noted that the changes resulting from the approach of the "complexity bomb" will not be felt for several months, so there is no urgent need to launch Constaninople. “We probably have three more months or more,” he said.
At the meeting, the developers also discussed the EIPs included in the subsequent Istanbul hard fork, which is scheduled to take place 8 months after the implementation of Constantinople. In particular, is it necessary to make changes to the PoW algorithm in order to reduce the efficiency of ASIC mining. The final decision on this issue has not yet been made. At the same time, developer Danny Ryan said that work on Casper, a proposal for transferring Ethereum to a new consensus algorithm, is moving forward.
As a reminder, it was previously reported that the Constantinople hard fork will be launched on the mainnet in October. And earlier this week, the Ethereum client Parity announced that it has implemented the Constantinople code into its software and is ready to start testing it.
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