Ethereum Core developers announced on Tuesday that they would postpone their much-awaited Constantinople hard fork. The team, which has previously settled January 16 as the official date for the Ethereum blockchain upgrade, decided to delay it after ChainSecurity found potential vulnerabilities in the code. The Switzerland-based blockchain audit firm said that Constantinople would enable “reentrancy…
The wait is over. After over a month-long delay, the Ethereum blockchain finally forked and activated Constantinople. These are exciting times for the Ethereum community. The Constantinople upgrade proposes to remove significant technical roadblocks that – till date – hampered the project’s growth. First, the Hard Fork paves the way for Ethereum’s broadly delayed scaling…
Over the past several weeks, Ethereum has seen consistent price gains that can be largely attributed to investors anticipating its Constantinople hard fork. This fork was widely viewed as being bullish due to it reducing the future supply of ETH by 33%. Now, Ethereum’s price is plunging due to Constantinople being delayed as a result…
Ethereum, like most major cryptocurrencies, has seen increased levels of volatility over the past week, but has failed to make any lasting upwards moves that resulted in sustained higher highs. Analysts now expect ETH to increased levels of volatility as its Constantinople hard fork approaches later this week. Although this hard fork event is widely seen…