We will be retiring Ethercluster, pointing it at servers hosted by RIVET. However we will still directly operate both ETC testnets, Kotti and Mordor. — The ETC Cooperative has provided publicly accessible RPC endpoints free of charge to various networks since mid-2019. This essential public infrastructure allowed wallets, apps, and other services to connect directly to any of the publicly accessible testnet or mainnet nodes. Then they would carry out their query or broadcast a…

The Ethereum Classic Cooperative (ETC Coop) published its transparency report for the months of July and August. — The ETC Cooperative is committed to maintaining consistent transparency with the ETC community and public at large. We are pleased to share ETC Cooperative’s Board Package for July and August. So much has taken place at the Co-op in the last couple of months. Check them out below. Highlights:

The ETC Cooperative is withdrawing its support for the ECIP-1098 Treasury proposal — For over a year the ETC Cooperative had focused its resources on the development and successful adoption of ECIP-1098, the ETC treasury proposal by IOHK. In light of our recent decision to discontinue support for the ETC treasury we have provided an in depth look at how exactly we came…

Recently, we had the delight of welcoming Charles Hoskinson to the Advisory Board of the ETC Cooperative. Charles was a member of the initial Advisory Board for the ETC Cooperative back in early 2018 and it is a pleasure to welcome him back. Charles brings with him a very unique…

This edition highlights the latest news and developments regarding protocol upgrades, the Keccak-256 update, IOHK’s Mantis projects and the upcoming Saturn DeFi platform. — Thank you for reading the 10th edition of the ETC Weekly newsletter! You may have noticed we took a short hiatus, but now we’re back! We recently had to focus our efforts to deliver the ETC Cooperative 2020 Retrospective and 2021 Roadmap. …

Why Ethereum Classic must switch mining algorithms — Ethereum Classic experienced a 51% attack in January 2019 and 3 more 51% attacks in Q3 of 2020 which accumulated multi-millions in losses from double spending and service downtime. While major exchanges were hit with double spends, Ethereum Classic was on a thread for delisting and some mining pools simply…

Here we have the fifth release of “ETC Weekly!” Thanos Hard Fork Success!!! With the successful Thanos network upgrade now activated on block 11.7M, late Sunday, we’d like to thank all the volunteers, stakeholders, miners, service providers, individuals and teams who made this happen. …

Get ready for this week’s ETC hard fork — Dear Ethereum Classic stakeholder, The Ethereum Classic network will be undergoing the Thanos hard-fork this week, at block 11_700_000 or around November 29, 2020. Major ETC pools making up the majority of the hash rate have confirmed their support for Thanos as well as major block explorers and infrastructure providers. Exchanges, wallets, and other…

ETC Cooperative Q3 2020 Transparency Report — We are pleased to announce the release of the ETC Cooperative 2020 Q3 Transparency Report. The ETC Cooperative publishes transparency reports every quarter (see Q1 and Q2) and shorter monthly board updates (see April, May, July, August) between those quarterly reports. This is an update on what has been happening…