soft fork
C23134
concept
A soft fork is a backward-compatible change to a blockchain’s protocol that tightens or adds rules so that upgraded nodes accept only blocks that also appear valid to non-upgraded nodes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| soft fork canonical | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: soft fork
Generated description
A soft fork is a backward-compatible change to a blockchain’s protocol that tightens or adds rules so that upgraded nodes accept only blocks that also appear valid to non-upgraded nodes.
Instances (1)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Segregated Witness | — |