Mantle Staked Ether to Undergo Hard Fork on January 16th
Mantle Staked Ether announced a scheduled hard fork upgrade for the Mantle Sepolia testnet on January 16 at 7:00 AM UTC.
The upgrade will introduce several changes, including integrating the EigenDA Proxy, adding the new JSON-RPC interface eth_getBlockReceipts, and fixes to gas validation.
What is a hardfork?
The cryptocurrency mainnet operates according to certain rules. To improve network performance or correct errors, changes are periodically introduced into it. A hard fork represents changes that are not compatible with previous versions of software supporting the cryptocurrency network. In order to continue to mine the cryptocurrency, miners need to update the software.
In some cases, as a result of a hard fork, a completely new cryptocurrency may appear, as happened with Bitcoin Cash and EthereumPoW.