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This page outlines the history of Ethereum Classic and it's future development goals.
A historical account of the formative events that created and defined Ethereum Classic.
These ECIPs (Ethereum Classic Improvement Proposals) have been accepted and have or will be implemented soon.
| Number | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1010 | Delay Difficulty Bomb Explosion | Igor Artamonov |
| 1015 | Long-term gas cost changes for IO-heavy operations to mitigate transaction spam attacks | Cody W Burns |
| 1017 | Monetary Policy and Final Modification to the Ethereum Classic Emission Schedule | Matthew Mazur |
| 1039 | Monetary policy rounding specification | Isaac Ardis |
| 1041 | Remove Difficulty Bomb | Igor Artamonov |
| 1048 | Clique proof-of-authority consensus protocol | Péter Szilágyi |
| 1050 | Status Codes | Brooklyn Zelenka, Boris Mann |
| 1054 | Atlantis EVM and Protocol Upgrades | Isaac Ardis |
| 1056 | Agharta EVM and Protocol Upgrades | Isaac Ardis, Wei Tang |
| 1088 | Phoenix EVM and Protocol Upgrades | Raw Pong Ghmoa |
| 1099 | Calibrate Epoch Duration | Luke Williams |
An outline of important protocol development milestones for the year of 2020, including highlights from the ETC Core 2020 Roadmap.
Ethereum Classic core developers maintain rough consensus for the collaborative effort of achieving operational parity with sister chain Ethereum (ETH).
The ETC Cooperative to help contribute to the codebase of Vyper in collaboration with Ben Hauser who implemented the changes necessary into Vyper in order to allow us to target multiple versions of the EVM in order to have it working with ETC.
Ethereum Classic core developers implement ETH's Constaninople and Petersburg network protocol upgrades to maintain operational parity with its sister chain.
Second State, Vyperlang, and other teams are implementing or experimenting in bringing LLVM infrastructure to the EthereumStack. This is an alpha version of the EVM LLVM. It includes the complete, working LLVM backend pipeline for generating EVM binaries. Optimizations are limited. https://github.com/etclabscore/evm_llvm/releases/tag/v0.5_alpha
CoreGeth: An Ethereum Protocol Provider. Priority is given to reducing opinions around chain configuration, IP-based feature implementations, and API predictability. Upstream development from ethereum/go-ethereum is merged to this repository regularly, usually at every upstream tagged release. Every effort is made to maintain seamless compatibility with upstream source, including compatible RPC, JS, and CLI APIs, data storage locations and schemas, and, of course, interoperable node protocols. Applicable bug reports, bug fixes, features, and proposals should be made upstream whenever possible.
ECIP 1050: Status Codes moves to Final status. This standard outlines a common set of Status Codes in the same vein as HTTP statuses. This provides a shared set of signals to allow smart contracts to react to situations autonomously, expose localized error messages to users, and so on. https://ecips.ethereumclassic.org/ECIPs/ecip-1050
During Aztlán testnet implementations, Ethereum Classic core developers discover complications with ECIP 1061 and 1078 specs to add ETH's Istanbul network protocol upgrade. Meowbits of ETC Core documents the findings. As intended, the ETC testnets catch the issues and core developers go back to the drawing board.
Ethereum Classic core developers reach rough consensus on ECIP-1088 in an effort to implement ETH's Istanbul network protocol upgrade. Testnet implementations revealed issues with prior attempts in specs ECIP-1061 and ECIP-1078.
Core-Geth implements block activation values for ECIP1088, Ethereum Classic's planned Phoenix hard fork upgrade. Please upgrade to version v1.11.0 or later for Phoenix support for ETC. https://github.com/etclabscore/core-geth/releases
Phoenix testing begins on the Mordor PoW testnet on block 999,983. Core development teams have signaled that this is a complex implementation. Testing may uncover issues that delay this network upgrade, but Ethereum Classic will never rush to upgrade the mainnet. Network security is priority over development speed and arbitary timelines. https://expedition.dev/?network=mordor
Hyperledger Besu implemented ECIP-1088: Phoenix EVM and Protocol upgrades. Please upgrade to version v1.4.1 or later for Phoenix support for ETC. https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/releases
Developer bounty platform Gitcoin has partnered with Ethereum Classic Labs to offer bounties in ETC.
March 17 2020, Ethereum Classic's block rewards are reduced by 20% to 3.2 ETC per block per the bitcoin-inspired 5M20 emission schedule.
The Kotti PoA testnet is successfully recovered after Aztlán implementations. The signers coordinate and regain consensus in anticipation for a successful Phoenix implementation. https://expedition.dev/?network=kotti
EthereumClassic.org website modernization project goes live with updated 2020 content. https://ethereumclassic.org/blog
EthereumClassic.org website modernization project goes live with a goal of providing accurate ETC content and automated information dissemination lines to the greater cryptocurrency ecosystem. https://ethereumclassic.org/news
EthereumClassic.org website modernization project goes live with the Phoenix theme. https://ethereumclassic.org
Multi-Geth implements support for the Phoenix hard fork on Ethereum Classic mainnet, at block 10,500,839, scheduled around the beginning of June, 2020. Please upgrade to version v1.9.14 or later for Phoenix support for ETC. https://github.com/multi-geth/multi-geth/releases
Phoenix testing begins on the Kotti PoA testnet on block 2,200,013. Core development teams have signaled that this is a complex implementation. Testing may uncover issues that delay this network upgrade, but Ethereum Classic will never rush to upgrade the mainnet. Network security is priority over development speed and arbitary timelines. https://expedition.dev/?network=mordor
Improve ETC specific documentation and add to the website for end user consumption. https://ethereumclassic.org/development/guides
Core development teams have signaled that this upgrade has successfully passed testing analysis on the Mordor and Kotti testnets. Ethereum Classic will never rush to upgrade the mainnet. Network security is priority over development speed and arbitary timelines. The ETC miners, wallets, exchanges, payment processors begin updated their clients for the Phoenix Upgrade. https://medium.com/etc-core/top-miners-confirmed-to-support-phoenix-ethereum-classic-hard-fork-phoenix-status-update-bc8964424fd4
Reach out to the non-english ETC social channels to translate the English version of the Ethereum Classic website. https://github.com/ethereumclassic/ethereumclassic.github.io
Phoenix activates on Ethereum Classic mainnet on block 10,500,839. Core development teams have signaled that this upgrade has successfully passed testing analysis on the Mordor and Kotti testnets. https://ethereumclassic.org/blog/2020-06-01-phoenix-hard-fork-upgrade/
Add Connext state channels support. The goal is to have Connext ETC channels live in 2020. https://etccooperative.org/posts/2020-07-17-etc-connext-state-channels
After a successful reorganization of the Ethereum Classic network, the development evaluates possible solutions to addressing future 51% attcks. https://2miners.com/blog/ethereum-classic-blockchain-split-3000-blocks-got-orphaned/
The Ethereum Classic prticipants discuss the potential viability for a treasury system. https://ethereumclassic.org/blog/2020-08-13-core-devs-call-treasury-discussions-initial
ForkWatch, a proof-of-work monitoring and alerting tool for the NiceHash hash market.. https://theforkwatch.substack.com/p/coming-soon
Charles Hoskinson and Input Output Global rejoin the Etherum Classic development ecosystem with a commitment to revive their Mantis client. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1S6MOrZcE
Swarm and Ethereum Classic Labs Announce Collaboration to Support the Swarm Alpha and Beta Release. https://medium.com/ethereum-classic-labs/swarm-and-ethereum-classic-labs-announce-collaboration-to-support-the-swarm-alpha-and-beta-release-17590951abb3
Ethereum Classic Labs Joins Forces with Storj Labs. https://medium.com/ethereum-classic-labs/ethereum-classic-labs-joins-forces-with-storj-labs-947726b3ecdd
Mantis development team begins the process of updating mantis to work on the Ethereum Classic network as Input Output Global rejoins the Ethereum Classic development ecosystem. https://youtu.be/ep6GMMZw8sE
MESS Client Upgrade. https://ethereumclassic.org/blog/2020-10-10-mess-client-upgrade
The Ethereum Classic development community begins work on Etchash and the Thanos network upgrade which have properties that are beneficial to 51% attack mitigation. https://medium.com/etc-core/ethereum-classic-prepares-for-the-thanos-hard-fork-upgrade-2e1e52633cc
Critical vulnerabilities are discovered in upstream Go and Geth clients. Patches are released in anticipation for the Ethereum Classic Thanos network upgrade. https://github.com/etclabscore/core-geth/releases
Ethereum Classic can be wrapped to interact with the ETH network's DeFi ecosystem. https://beincrypto.com/ethereum-classic-users-to-access-ethereum-with-wetc/
Ethereum Classic's Thanos upgrade releases to mainnet. https://ethereumclassic.org/blog/2020-11-27-thanos-hard-fork-upgrade
With the capture of a healthy, decentralized mining community to mitigate 51% attacks, the development and mining communities engage in a deep discussion about Ethereum Classic's risk to self-sovereignty in the development wing of the project. Treasury proposals are drafted and discussed while the Ethereum Classic project moves into 2021.