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