Hard Forks of 2022

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Fall season of 2022 was a pretty intense period for crypto engineers & coin node operators - multiple cryptocurrencies have performed major protocol upgrades.

List of upgrades

  1. 🗓️ 15 Sep - Ethereum, The Merge
  2. 🗓️ 20 Sep - DeSo Protocol, Social Layer Hard Fork
  3. 🗓️ 22 Sep - Cardano, Vasil
  4. 🗓️ 23 Sep - Tezos, Kathmandu
  5. 🗓️ 28 Sep - NEAR, Protocol v56
  6. 🗓️ 28 Sep - Theta Network, v3.4.0
  7. 🗓️ 06 Oct - BNB Chain, v1.1.15 hot fix and hard-fork release1
  8. 🗓️ 12 Oct - BNB Chain, v1.1.16 Moran hardfork1
  9. 🗓️ 18 Oct - Avalanche, Banff
  10. 🗓️ 03 Nov - Theta Network, v4.0.0
  11. 🗓️ 14 Nov - Celo, v1.7.0 Istanbul consensus fork
  12. 🗓️ 28 Nov - Digital Gold, migration to Ethereum
  13. 🗓️ 06 Dec - Algorand, Consensus: v362
  14. 🗓️ 12 Dec - BNB Chain, v1.1.18 Gibbs hardfork
  15. 🗓️ 12 Dec - NEAR, Protocol v57
  16. 🗓️ 19 Dec - Tezos, Lima

Footnotes

  1. Related to BNB Chain hack worth of ~$600M.

  2. Algorand protocol upgrade date is approximate:

    The upgrade process includes a threshold where 90% or more of the block proposers state that they are ready for the next consensus version. Once the 90% threshold is met, everyone with the new binary now switches to speaking in the new consensus version at a point that is 10,000 block marks from when the 90% threshold occurs.