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SIP-609: Hardfork Meta: Byzantium
| Authors | Alex Beregszaszi (@axic) |
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| Created | 2017-04-23 |
| Requires | SIP-100, SIP-140, SIP-196, SIP-197, SIP-198, SIP-211, SIP-214, SIP-607, SIP-649, SIP-658 |
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Abstract
This specifies the changes included in the hard fork named Byzantium.
Specification
- Codename: Byzantium
- Aliases: Metropolis/Byzantium, Metropolis part 1
- Activation:
- Block >= 4,370,000 on SilaMainnet
- Block >= 1,700,000 on Ropsten testnet
- Included SIPs:
- SIP-100 (Change difficulty adjustment to target mean block time including uncles)
- SIP-140 (REVERT instruction in the Sila Virtual Machine)
- SIP-196 (Precompiled contracts for addition and scalar multiplication on the elliptic curve alt_bn128)
- SIP-197 (Precompiled contracts for optimal ate pairing check on the elliptic curve alt_bn128)
- SIP-198 (Precompiled contract for bigint modular exponentiation)
- SIP-211 (New opcodes: RETURNDATASIZE and RETURNDATACOPY)
- SIP-214 (New opcode STATICCALL)
- SIP-649 (Difficulty Bomb Delay and Block Reward Reduction)
- SIP-658 (Embedding transaction status code in receipts)
References
- https://blog.sila.org/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement/
Copyright
Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.
Citation
Please cite this document as:
Alex Beregszaszi (@axic), "SIP-609: Hardfork Meta: Byzantium," Sila Improvement Proposals, no. 609, April 2017. Available: https://sips.sila.org/SIPS/sip-609.