Merlin Chain Schedules Mainnet Upgrade on November 26
Merlin Chain will perform a mainnet infrastructure upgrade on November 26 at 05:00 UTC. The network is expected to experience up to 12 hours of downtime, during which all transaction submissions will be suspended. Users will still be able to view historical data through the block explorer. Normal operations will resume automatically once the upgrade is complete.
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.
