Hard Forks of 2024

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Following 25 hard forks in 2023, there will be at least 6 planned protocol upgrades coming this year. Giant kudos to Bitcoin Cash development team, giving 6 months notice once again!

List of upgrades

  1. 🗓️ 16 Jan 2024 - Algorand, Consensus Upgrade1
  2. 🗓️ 22 Jan 2024 - Ripple, Ledger version 2.0.0
  3. 🗓️ 27 Jan 2024 - Arbitrum, ArbOS version 11
  4. 🗓️ 31 Jan 2024 - Ethereum Classic, Spiral
  5. 🗓️ 09 Feb 2024 - Tezos, Oxford
  6. 🗓️ 22 Feb 2024 - Optimism, Delta
  7. 🗓️ 06 Mar 2024 - Avalanche, Durango
  8. 🗓️ 11 Mar 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v64
  9. 🗓️ 13 Mar 2024 - Ethereum, Dencun
  10. 🗓️ 14 Mar 2024 - Optimism, Ecotone
  11. 🗓️ 21 Mar 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v65
  12. 🗓️ 10 Apr 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v66
  13. 🗓️ 18 Apr 2024 - Binance Smart Chain, Feynman
  14. 🗓️ 15 May 2024 - Bitcoin Cash, 2024-05-15 Network Upgrade
  15. 🗓️ 20 May 2024 - Chiliz Chain, Dragon8
  16. 🗓️ 04 Jun 2024 - Tezos, Paris
  17. 🗓️ 15 Jun 2024 - Tron, Cleobulus
  18. 🗓️ 20 Jun 2024 - Binance Smart Chain, Tycho2
  19. 🗓️ 20 Jun 2024 - Binance Smart Chain, Haber2
  20. 🗓️ 24 Jun 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v67
  21. 🗓️ 01 Jul 2024 - Polkadot, Runtime v1.2.53
  22. 🗓️ 02 Jul 2024 - DeSo Protocol, Revolution Proof-of-Stake
  23. 🗓️ 10 Jul 2024 - Optimism, Fjord
  24. 🗓️ 12 Aug 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v68
  25. 🗓️ 14 Aug 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v69
  26. 🗓️ 04 Sep 2024 - Polygon, MATIC → POL Migration
  27. 🗓️ 26 Aug 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v70
  28. 🗓️ 01 Sep 2024 - Cardano, Chang
  29. 🗓️ 16 Sep 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v71
  30. 🗓️ 29 Oct 2024 - Stacks, Nakamoto
  31. 🗓️ 06 Nov 2024 - Solana, Agave v2.0
  32. 🗓️ 11 Nov 2024 - NEAR, Protocol v72

Footnotes

  1. 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.

  2. Tycho & Haber are two hard forks happenning at the same time on the Mainnet - 2024-06-20 06:05:00 AM UTC

  3. Polkadot runtime updates are often & smooth, however this one contained a breaking change:

    Of special note is the inclusion of the new CheckMetadataHash extension. This is a breaking change for transaction encoding on all chains. Please update wallets and applications accordingly.