Metropolis
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Metropolis is a major Ethereum protocol upgrade that introduced significant improvements to scalability, security, and usability of the blockchain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metropolis canonical | 1 |
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ethereum hard fork phase
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Ethereum protocol upgrade ⓘ |
| affects |
Ethereum consensus layer
ⓘ
surface form:
Ethereum consensus rules
Ethereum gas schedule ⓘ Ethereum virtual machine behavior ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Ethereum blockchain
ⓘ
surface form:
Ethereum mainnet
|
| designedBy | Ethereum core developers ⓘ |
| follows | Homestead ⓘ |
| goal |
enhance developer experience
ⓘ
increase protocol robustness ⓘ prepare Ethereum for future scaling solutions ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Byzantium
ⓘ
Constantinople (probable) ⓘ
surface form:
Constantinople
|
| improves |
Ethereum scalability
ⓘ
Ethereum security ⓘ Ethereum usability ⓘ |
| includesFeature |
EVM improvements
ⓘ
enhanced transaction privacy primitives ⓘ improved smart contract opcodes ⓘ precompiled contracts for cryptographic operations ⓘ reduced gas costs for certain operations ⓘ zk-SNARKs support ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
need for better scalability
ⓘ
need for improved user experience ⓘ need for stronger security guarantees ⓘ |
| network |
Ethereum blockchain
ⓘ
surface form:
Ethereum
|
| partOf | Ethereum roadmap ⓘ |
| precedes | Serenity ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| type | on-chain protocol upgrade ⓘ |
| upgradeMechanism | hard fork ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
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