We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular status change that transferred ~12 million ETH from the “Dark DAO” and “Whitehat DAO” contracts to the Withdraw DAO Recovery Contract. The fork itself ran smoothly, with about 85% of the miners mining in the fork:
You can see the progress of the current fork here. EthStats shows Go, Java, and Parity (Rust) nodes correctly synced with the branch chain.
The recovery contract is already returning the ether of DAO token holders; Around 4.5 million ETH have been sent to DAO token holders, and around 463,000 ETH are under the control of the healer; A contract to facilitate extra-balance payments is currently under security review.
Users who are only interested in participating in the fork chain should update their clients to a fork-aware version if they haven’t already done so; updated Go client (version 1.4.10) is available here. If any user is still interested in following the chain without branching, they should still upgrade, but run with the –opposite-dao-fork flag enabled, although they should be careful with transaction replay attacks and take appropriate measures to protect against them; users with no interest in the non-forking chain need not worry about transaction replay attack issues.
We thank our developers and community for working together to make the transition as smooth as it has been, and we look forward to working together to continue to make the Ethereum ecosystem and protocol a success.
