IMPORTANT: About ETC “Atlantis” upgrade
Greetings, Ethereum Classic Community, from the ETC Cooperative!
As you have likely heard, the Ethereum Classic blockchain will be undergoing a planned protocol upgrade (AKA non-contentious hard fork) at block 8,772,000. This block is on track to be mined on September 12th 2019 or September 13th 2019.
The Kotti and Classic Morden testnets have already been updated.
What do I need to do?
If you are not running a node then you will need to do nothing. This is not a contentious fork. It is not anticipated that we will end up with an Ethereum Classic Classic coin.
If you are running an ETC node, either as an individual user, a developer, or to support a wallet, exchange or other centralized service, you will need to update your node, or you will be left behind on the old chain and be very unhappy.
Which clients support Atlantis?
- Classic Geth (v6.0.8 or newer). ETC Labs just released v6.0.9, so if you haven’t updated yet, go for that version.
- MultiGeth (v1.9.2 or newer)
- Parity (v2.5.6 or newer)
- If you are running Mantis then you are out of luck. IOHK have not updated Mantis with Atlantis support, so all Mantis nodes will drop off the ETC network at block 8,772,000. Sad face.
What is Atlantis?
Atlantis is a hard-fork which brings the Spurious Dragon and Byzantium upgrades from Ethereum to the Ethereum Classic blockchain. All of the changes are detailed in ECIP-1054.
If I have questions, where can I ask them?
- Ethereum Classic Discord or ETC Labs Discord.
- On twitter with ETCCooperative, Bob, Yaz, Donald, eth_classic, etclabs or other ETC community members you know and trust.
Bob Summerwill (Executive Director, ETC Cooperative)
