On February 28, the Constantinople hard fork took place at block #7280000 on the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization, Ethereum. Simultaneously with Constantinople, the St. Petersburg hard fork was activated on the Ethereum network. Its task is to disable the EIP-1283 protocol, in which problems with a Reentrancy-type vulnerability were discovered. It was precisely because of these that the upgrade was canceled in January.

The implementation of the ProgPow algorithm in Ethereum has been postponed; it was supposed to reduce the efficiency of Bitmain's ASIC miners when mining Ethereum , which, in turn, would have made graphics processors more competitive. This decision was made by the Ethereum developers during a conference call this Friday...

The transaction volume in the Ethereum network in December 2018 reached $115 million, which according to specialists of the analytics company Diar is the maximum value over the entire existence of the Ethereum project...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network will probably be activated at the end of February. This decision was made during a conference call on the morning of January 18. The Ethereum developers proposed carrying out the transition of the Ethereum network to the new software between February 26 and 28...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network is being postponed. The decision to postpone the hard fork was made by the Ethereum developers because of a critical vulnerability found in one of the upcoming upgrades...