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DeFiChain Triggers Grand Central Hard Fork, With Four Upgrades

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Written By: Michael Abadha
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  • DeFiChain has rolled out the Grand Central Hard Fork as it targets faster growth in 2023. We discuss the new functionalities it introduces.

It’s official: DeFiChain, a leading network on Bitcoin blockchain, has launched the Grand Central hard fork. The upgrade went live on Block Height 2,479,003 at 1:00 am EST on Thursday, December 8th. The DeFiChain community will be ready for rapid expansion in 2023 thanks in part to this hard fork, which settles some of the project’s product debt.

The Grand Central hard fork introduces four major improvements: on-chain governance, a token consortium framework, the ability to update masternode parameters (owner, operator, reward address), and adjustments to the pool commission and reward.

On-chain Governance (OCG)

Any community proposal requiring a vote can now be held on the blockchain itself, thanks to the OCG feature. As a result, voting on DeFiChain is simplified, more secure, and more open to public scrutiny. Masternode owners can make changes to the DeFiChain ecosystem by voting on three different proposals submitted by the community:

  • A Request for Proposal Regarding Community Development Funds (also known as Community Fund Proposal; CFP)
  • Vote of confidence (also known as DeFiChain Improvement Proposal; DFIP)
  • A Proposal for Redistributing Block Rewards

Also, tracking the voting results is now considerably easier with the introduction of a dashboard on defiscan.live.

Support for masternode owners

Voting on proposals will be easier for masternode owners because of the dashboard’s ability to create a script. As a whole, this would lead to more people casting votes on various proposals.

DeFiChain Consortium

Tokenized digital assets in DeFiChain are supposed to be backed 1:1 by the actual asset in its ecosystem. However, at the moment, the blockchain cannot enforce this backing. All digital assets will be secured thanks to the DeFiChain Consortium’s efforts to standardize the process of backing them up.

The Consortium, once formed, will improve DeFiChain’s transparency and governance. Furthermore, it allows the community to keep tabs on the value of tokenized digital assets, which helps prevent excessive minting.

Each Consortium participant (such Cake DeFi) will have their own private key to use for minting and burning tokenized digital assets. Also, e each participant must provide support for any digital assets they mint, whether for their own use or on behalf of their platform’s users.

Participants in the Consortium will also be required to pledge collateral in the form of DFI or dUSD, to be held in a smart contract for two days. Additional support for tokenized digital assets is necessary. Each member’s daily mintage of digital assets will be capped based on this collateral. The purpose of this additional security is to prevent community members from acting against the community’s best interests and to cover the costs of any resulting damage.

This post was last modified on Dec 08, 2022, 11:38 GMT 11:38

Written By: Michael Abadha

Michael is a self-taught financial markets analyst, who specializes in analysis of equities, forex and crypto markets. He draws his inspiration from the fact that markets provide an interface through which the world interacts in search of a better tomorrow.

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