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Definition
A change to the rules, or a split into two chains.
A soft fork tightens rules so old nodes still accept new blocks. A hard fork changes them incompatibly, so everyone must upgrade or end up on a separate chain.
Contentious hard forks create two chains and two assets. Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic both came from disagreements that could not be resolved.
In practice
Ethereum's move to proof of stake was a planned hard fork with near universal agreement, so no lasting split occurred.
Where to go next
ConsensusHow a distributed network agrees on which transactions are valid and in what order.BlockchainA shared record of transactions that no single party controls.Governance tokenA token that grants voting rights over how a protocol is run.
More technology terms
Account abstractionAppchainBlock explorerCirculating and total supplyConsensusData availabilityEVMFaucetFinalityFully diluted valuation (FDV)Gas warHalving
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