ethereum.forks.homestead
The Homestead fork increases the gas cost of creating contracts, restricts the range of valid ECDSA signatures for transactions (but not precompiles), tweaks the behavior of contract creation with insufficient gas, delays the difficulty bomb, and adds an improved delegate call EVM instruction.
Changes
Upgrade Schedule
| Network | Block | Expected Date | Fork Hash |
| Morden | 494,000 | ||
| Mainnet | 1,150,000 | March 14, 2016 | 0x97c2c34c |
Releases
FORK_CRITERIA
| 34 | FORK_CRITERIA = ByBlockNumber(1150000) |
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