Particl to Activate Mandatory Core Hardfork on February 1
Particl has released a mandatory Particl Core update in preparation for a scheduled hardfork on February 1, 2026, at 12:00 UTC.
The upgrade follows a completed on-chain vote and introduces a reduction of staking rewards to 3.5% of the money supply, removes the automatic treasury allocation from staking rewards (now optional and set to 0% by default), disables frozen blinded spends below 200 PART, and adds new network checkpoints.
All node operators are required to upgrade before the activation time to remain compatible with the network.
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.
