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zkEVM-compatible Layer-2 on Ethereum Ethereum Classic: Jul 20, 2016 ETC PoW: Yes No No Split from Ethereum due to The DAO hack earlier that month [1] Bitcoin Cash: Aug 1, 2017 BCH PoW [10] split from Bitcoin Cardano: Sep 27, 2017 Charles Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood ADA DPoS: Yes No No Probabilistic UTXO [1] [11] [12] TRON: Jun 24, 2018 TRON DPoS ...
In this case, the fork resulted in a split creating Ethereum and Ethereum Classic chains. In 2014 the Nxt community was asked to consider a hard fork that would have led to a rollback of the blockchain records to mitigate the effects of a theft of 50 million NXT from a major cryptocurrency exchange .
Ethereum enthusiasts gather for a Merge party in San Francisco in 2022. Ethereum 2.0 (Eth2) was a set of three or more upgrades, also known as "phases", meant to transition the network's consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake, and to scale the network's transaction throughput with execution sharding and an improved EVM architecture.
Based on Hashgraph protocol, Hedera Hashgraph mainnet was launched in 2019. [4] The Hedera white paper co-authored by Baird explained that "at the end of each round, each node calculates the shared state after processing all transactions that were received in that round and before," and it "digitally signs a hash of that shared state, puts it ...
The Ethereum Foundation applied their trademark to the new, altered version of the Ethereum blockchain. [2] The older, unaltered version of Ethereum was renamed and continued on as Ethereum Classic. [2] Ethereum Classic's native Ether token is a cryptocurrency traded on digital currency exchanges under the currency code ETC. [3]
Uniswap was created on November 2, 2018 [2] by Hayden Adams, [3] a former mechanical engineer at Siemens. [1] Adams is the founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs, the company responsible for the development of the Uniswap Protocol, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Ethereum blockchain. [4]
It allows a user to access their Ethereum wallet through a browser extension or mobile app, which can then be used to interact with decentralized applications. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] MetaMask is developed by Consensys , a blockchain software company focusing on Ethereum -based tools and infrastructure.
Chainlink published a second white paper in April 2021. That paper, Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks, detailed a vision for expanding the role and capabilities of decentralized oracle networks to include hybrid smart contracts, which utilize on-chain code and off-chain services provided by oracle networks.