Do Network has completed its first important hard fork. After the hard fork, all our community members, including users and developers, can own a combined address, instead of two different addresses in one account, which can be quite complicated and confusing.
But that’s not all. Actually, this hard fork has more influence than you expected.
What is a hard fork?
Fork is a common event in the blockchain industry. Since a blockchain is governed by the community, sometimes the community members can have different opinions about the blockchain, thus divergences happen.
To solve the divergences, people discuss and vote. However, sometimes the divergences are so deep that people can’t get united. When a blockchain is experiencing this, a fork may happen. People holding different opinions divide one blockchain into two, they lead the blockchain in two directions.
You may have heard that there are two kinds of forks, one is hard fork and the other is soft fork. Hard fork means that the two blockchains after dividing are not compatible anymore. On the other hand, a soft fork means they can still be compatible since there are only some relatively small changes.
Why DO network runs a hard fork?
After knowing what is a hard fork, you may wonder, since divergences generate hard forks, and there is no divergence about if DO network should combine two addresses into one, why DO network runs this hard fork?
Actually, not similar to Web2, each change on the chain in Web3 will lead to a fork, even though no one objects to it. That is part of the Web3 spirit. In the history of blockchain, countless forks happen, especially for Bitcoin and Ethereum, however, these forks didn’t have a negative effect on them, instead, they are part of building the ecology.
Such things will also happen to DO network. It can be expected that in the future, more hard forks will happen, and during that process, DO network will keep improving and become better.
What will happen after the hard fork?
The hard fork makes it more convenient for users and develops to interact with DO network, and more. This is the beginning of DO network governance. Fundamentally, a fork is a format of governance, so the hard fork can be regarded as the first important governance event in the history of DO network.
