Ethereum's Hardfork Constantinople Now Scheduled for February

According to Ethereum developer Péter Szilágyi, the network's Constantinople hard fork is set to activate at block number 7,280,000, expected on February 27th.

Constantinople is expected to improve the network's performance by streamlining its code. It is also expected to delay Ethereum's "difficulty bomb", an algorithm embedded within Ethereum's code that makes blocks steadily harder to mine that may lead to 30 second block times.


The upgrade features five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), although smart contract audit firm ChainSecurity flagged a security vulnerability in one of these EIPs earlier this week.


Now the upgrade is scheduled to be released in 2 parts simultaneously: one part as the 5 original EIPs, and the second part to remove EIP 1283.

This proposal is intended so that networks that have already implemented Constantinople will not have to roll back any blocks.

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