EIP-606

Hardfork Meta: Homestead

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Created: 2017-04-23

Alex Beregszaszi (@axic)

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The EIP-606 proposal specifies the changes included in the Homestead hard fork, including the activation block numbers for the mainnet and Morden testnet, as well as the included EIPs (EIP-2, EIP-7, and EIP-8). EIP-2 outlines the specific changes to be made in the hard fork, including increasing the gas cost for creating contracts, invalidating transaction signatures with s-values greater than secp256k1n/2, and changing the difficulty adjustment algorithm.

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Abstract

This specifies the changes included in the hard fork named Homestead.

Specification

Codename: Homestead
Activation:
- Block >= 1,150,000 on Mainnet
- Block >= 494,000 on Morden
- Block >= 0 on future testnets
Included EIPs:
- EIP-2 (Homestead Hard-fork Changes)
- EIP-7 (DELEGATECALL)
- EIP-8 (Networking layer: devp2p Forward Compatibility Requirements for Homestead)

References

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/02/29/homestead-release/

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