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Ethereum Classic activated Spiral at block 19,250,000 on February 5, 2024, adopting Shanghai execution-layer EIPs including PUSH0 and warm COINBASE.
Ethereum Classic activated Mystique at block 14,525,000 on February 12, 2022, implementing selected London EIPs while deliberately omitting EIP-1559.
Ethereum Classic activated Magneto at block 13,189,133 on July 23, 2021, introducing typed transactions, access lists, and the cold/warm state access model.
Ethereum Classic activated Phoenix at block 10,500,839 on June 1, 2020, achieving full Istanbul EVM equivalence after the Aztlan governance crisis.
Ethereum Classic activated Agharta at block 9,573,000 on January 12, 2020, adding bitwise shifting, CREATE2, and EXTCODEHASH.
Ethereum Classic activated Atlantis at block 8,772,000 on September 12, 2019, closing a two-year EVM gap with 10 Byzantium EIPs.
Ethereum Classic activated Thanos at block 11,700,000 on November 28, 2020, doubling the DAG epoch length to keep 4GB GPUs mining and establishing the Etchash algorithm.
At block 200,000 on September 7, 2015, the Frontier Thawing upgrade unlocked the gas limit, enabling practical smart contract deployment for the first time.
At block 1,150,000 on March 14, 2016, Homestead moved the network from beta to production with DELEGATECALL, tightened transaction rules, and P2P forward compatibility.
At block 2,500,000 on October 24, 2016, the Gas Reprice upgrade (EIP-150) was activated as an emergency response to the Shanghai DoS attacks that had been crippling the network.
At block 3,000,000 on January 13, 2017, Die Hard established ETC's protocol sovereignty with replay protection (Chain ID 61), difficulty bomb delay, and state trie cleanup.
At block 5,900,000 on May 29, 2018, ECIP-1041 permanently removed the exponential difficulty bomb, affirming ETC's commitment to proof-of-work consensus.
The Olympia network upgrade will bring EIP-1559 fee markets, a community treasury funded by the basefee, and Cancun/Fusaka EVM equivalence to Ethereum Classic.
At block 5,000,000, Ethereum Classic activates its fixed monetary policy via the Gotham hard fork, reducing block rewards from 5 ETC to 4 ETC.
Ethereum Classic activates the Mystique network upgrade at block 14,525,000, implementing selected London EIPs while deliberately omitting EIP-1559.
Six months after activation, the Spiral network upgrade has brought EVM parity with Ethereum's Shanghai execution layer to Ethereum Classic without incident.
The Ethereum Classic community began formal review of the Olympia upgrade ECIPs, proposing EIP-1559 fee markets, a non-inflationary treasury, and on-chain governance.
Olympia is the most significant protocol upgrade in Ethereum Classic's history — delivering EIP-1559, Fusaka EVM parity, a protocol-native treasury, on-chain DAO governance, futarchy prediction markets, and miner distribution improvements in a single coordinated activation. This is a complete overview of what Olympia is, how it works, and why it matters.
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