Hi everyone,
In preparation for the last hard-fork back in October, we had mentioned that we anticipated one more hard-fork. This is to materialize the accounts from our recently concluded Stacks distribution campaign in partnership with blockchain.com.
This hard fork is expected to go live on or about January 17, 2020 , at Bitcoin block 613250 and will continue on for the following ~30 blocks. Approximately 300,000 new STX addresses will be materialized during this process.
As before, this hardfork should not be confused with the upgrade to Stacks V2 blockchain, which is expected later this year. Stacks 2.0 will be a significant upgrade of the Stacks blockchain featuring a ground-up clean slate implementation in Rust, major new capabilities including Clarity (our safe and decidable smart-contract language) and native Stacks mining.
We anticipate this is the last hardfork that Blockstack PBC will oversee; going forward, we expect that all protocol changes (including the V2 upgrade), will be triggered by nodes on the Blockstack network (Stacks miners).
It’s worth noting that in addition to aforementioned features, Stacks 2.0 will also support introducing network upgrades via soft-forks, allowing in-place upgrades for many new features and capabilities.
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