The Ethereum Classic (ETC) cryptocurrency has risen in price by a third over the past day after the announcement of the upcoming hard fork.
This allowed the asset to take the 16th place in the CoinGecko rating. ETC is trading above $60, but this is significantly lower than the May high, when the price exceeded $107.
Ethereum Classic technology coordinator Stevan Lohya on Tuesday announced the upcoming hard fork for the implementation of the latest version of the project.
The update, which the community called "Magneto", will include four suggestions for improving Ethereum or EIP, which appeared in the Ethereum Berlin update earlier this year.
These offers are aimed at increasing the level of security and reducing commission costs by storing addresses and keys in one place.
Beta testing of the Morder and Kotti test networks from ETC began on June 2 and 9. In the mainnet, the hard fork should be activated on July 21, 2021.
Stevan Lohya recommended that users update the software of their nodes to a version compatible with Magneto.
If users do not manage nodes or services, but use Ethereum Classic through third-party applications, they need to make sure that these applications support the Magneto update.
Recall that at the end of last year, a group of ETC Labs developers began working on creating a "bridge" between the Ethereum Classic and Ethereum blockchains. It will allow swaps of the DAI stablecoin, which is used in many decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, to be carried out between these networks.