Ethereum’s Upgrades: Why Constantinople Fork Is So ‘Hard’ to Implement

More than a year ago software developer and member of the Ethereum Foundation, Hudson Jameson, announced plans to launch Metropolis, the third stage on the way to moving the platform to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). All this time, the developers have been keeping secret the date of its final phase, called Constantinople, which is to be held in the form of a hard fork on the network.

On September 14, during one of the team’s bi-weekly video calls, it finally became known that the planned hard fork was on track for its mainnet release in November. However, due to “a consensus issue”, which happened during the testing of a new update on October 13, the developers decided to delay Constantinople until January 2019.

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