Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx Announces Support for ETC Hard Fork

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Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has announced support for Ethereum Classic's upcoming Atlantis hard fork.

In a blog post published on Sept. 10, OKEx announced that the exchange will support ETC's hard fork, estimated to take place between Sept. 12 and Sept. 13, 2019 at block height 8,772,000.

OKEx warned in the announcement that during the planned period, users should deposit their ETC to OKEx in advance since the exchange will handle related technical issues.

OKEx noted that it will resume services once the ETC mainnet is stable.

As previously described by Cointelegraph, Atlantis is planned to be a consistent, no-rush update that would ensure compatibility of ETC with Ethereum, leading to an easier collaboration with sibling blockchains.

The hard fork is also expected to improve ETC's functionality and stability.

Atlantis will purportedly provide wider capabilities for interoperability between blockchains and off-chain scaling protocols.

According to the Atlantis hard fork proposal on GitHub, "Establishing and maintaining interoperable behavior between Ethereum clients is essential for developers and end-user adoption, yielding benefits for all participating chains."

In January, ETC developers were alerted of a possible attack on the network by Chinese blockchain security firm SlowMist, which was relayed to the wider community on Twitter.

A tweet from the ETC Twitter handle, which has since been deleted, speculated that testing of new 1,400/Mh ethash machines by application-specific integrated circuit manufacturer Linzhi may have been a potential cause.

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