Terraform Labs have confirmed that the brand new Luna 2.0 blockchain launch on Might 27 is not going to share any historical past with Luna Traditional.
An official announcement has clarified that the brand new chain shall be a “model new blockchain… ranging from genesis block 0 that won’t share historical past with Terra Traditional.”
The group clarified that,
“A (exhausting) fork refers to a change in a blockchain protocol that leads to two blockchains – one which follows the earlier protocol & one which follows the brand new model. The brand new chain shares all of its earlier historical past with the unique.”
Nevertheless, the brand new Terra blockchain will probably be “the genesis of a brand new blockchain” if the vote passes. At present, the vote has achieved a quorum and surpassed the 50% go threshold with out assembly the veto restrict of 33%.
On Might 25 at 12:17 pm GMT, the vote will finish, and the trail to Luna 2.0 will start. Nevertheless, a critical concern at this level must be whether or not Terraform Labs can execute the proposal. Two important proposals have handed prior to now seven days however did not execute as a result of technical points.
Will there be a technical problem with implementing prop 1623? It’s unlikely as a brand new blockchain is being created. Nevertheless, the previous few weeks have taught us that something is feasible within the Terra Luna fiasco.
Not a fork
Terra has some important hurdles to beat since a brand new blockchain is being created from block 0. As an example, “DApps or property from the outdated chain (Terra Traditional) is not going to pre-exist on Terra (as they’d in a fork), & will due to this fact have to migrate.”
The necessity to migrate signifies that any Terra venture that introduced they’d assist the brand new chain must resolve whether or not to proceed supporting their dApp on Luna Traditional and Luna 2.0 or abandon one for the opposite. Certainly, no dApps will probably be reside on Luna 2.0 at launch as there will probably be work to be finished emigrate the codebase over to the brand new chain.
Controversially, the additional controversy comes from FatManTerra’s response, stating,
“It’s not technically a fork, however that’s apart from the purpose. Why did you manipulate the governance vote into pushing it via? Why not have an actual vote? Why are you strong-arming builders into supporting it after they don’t need to?”
The argument is supported by the truth that Luna Basis Guard purchased 221 million LUNA and staked it throughout validators on Might 12. This gave LFG a majority within the governance vote to make sure any proposal they supported would go.
On condition that these voters had been “staked throughout a variety of validators,” it’s unclear whether or not LFG used these votes or delegated the votes to the validators themselves.
The ambivalence of the state of affairs continued as one other commenter additionally famous that Do Kwon himself used “fork” language in describing the brand new blockchain,
TFL: Cease calling it a fork
My man you actually began it#Luna #Terra https://t.co/DseOy3yoIl pic.twitter.com/0etsGTEoaF
— Oliver Barsby (@OliverBarsby) May 23, 2022