{"id":12805,"date":"2019-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2019\/03\/07\/aeternitys-first-hardfork-and-minerva-release-happening-today\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:00:00","slug":"aeternitys-first-hardfork-and-minerva-release-happening-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/aeternitys-first-hardfork-and-minerva-release-happening-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeternity\u2019s First Hardfork and Minerva Release Happening Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Aeternity blockchain launched its mainnet in November last year. The launch begun on a quite strong foot with the platform intending to release three upgrade Hard forks as outlined below;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>1st fork<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00b7 The current phase<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00b7 Ended in February 15th 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00b7 Includes all tokens migrated between the mainnet launch and the 1st fork<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>2nd Fork<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00b7 Set to end in May 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00b7 Will include all tokens migrated between the 1st and the 2nd Hardforks<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>3rd Fork\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00b7 Set to end in September 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00b7 Will include all tokens migrated between the 2nd and 3rd Hard forks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1_ae.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-154468\" src=\"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1_ae.jpg\" alt=\"Aeternity\" width=\"700\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Each of these hard forks will migrate tokens and add or expand features on the Aeternity Blockchain. Users will be able to receive their AE tokens on the mainnet once one phase and one Hardfork has been completed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.aeternity.com\/%C3%A6ternity-blockchains-first-hardfork-and-minerva-release-3efbbe39a723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aeternity\u2019s blog post release on Medium<\/a><\/strong>, these hard forks were scheduled with two main aims;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">To allow users to be able to migrate their AE (ERC20) tokens to Aeternity\u2019s mainnet and<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">2. To gradually introduce new features and improvements to the <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/what-is-aeternity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Aeternity blockchain<\/strong><\/a>. These new features may include governance of the Aeternity platform or the new virtual machine. This implies that the migration process will change after the third 3rd phase because of the smart contracts managing the AE tokens that are expiring and the Ethereum (ETH) tokens that are becoming non-transferable.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The Minerva Release<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The First Aeternity Hardfork, which also happens to be its second mainnet, is called <strong>Minerva<\/strong> and <strong>is set to become active today<\/strong>. Apparently, Aeternity\u2019s core development team has for so long been preparing for this release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to their blog post,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u2018Minerva will close Phase 1 of AE Token Migration and contains a number of consensus-breaking changes that improve AEVM, the Sophia language, and state channels.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Minerva upgrade was set to become active yesterday on the 6th of March 2019 but did not take place. The release is happening today and apparently, there are less than 100 blocks left to go before the fork becomes active.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>In about 2 hours from the time of writing, all the phase 1 migrated tokens will be available on the mainnet.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aeternity blockchain launched its mainnet in November last year. The launch begun on a quite strong foot with the platform intending to release three upgrade Hard forks as outlined below;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,74],"tags":[4582,5001],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}