Clients
- Besu for ETC moved to the besu-etc/besu fork, with release 26.6.1-etc and a 26.7.0-etc snapshot
- Besu ETC plugin repointed at the besu-etc/besu fork
- core-geth aligned with the go-ethereum v1.17.5 Go toolchain, 46 commits merged with no consensus changes
- core-geth CI moved EVMC builds to Ubuntu 26.04
- core-geth README and SECURITY.md PR opened, describing the client and how to report vulnerabilities
- Nethermind ETC plugin v2.1.0.0, v2.2.0.0, v2.2.1.0 and v2.2.2.0 released, moving the plugin to Nethermind 2.2
- Nethermind ETC plugin fixes merged for startup after the plugin API change, MESS ordering and the mining coinbase setting
- Nethermind ETC plugin PR opened to stop the CPU nonce search when sealing is cancelled
Infrastructure
- Triforce cell added in Mexico City, an Americas core-geth snap node carrying an ethash cache-prune patch
- Triforce grid at eleven live cells, with Besu snap in Switzerland at head and maxPeers raised to 1000
- Triforce dashboard shows mainnet pools by name and logo, with one colour per client and a 2x2 network status view
- devp2p explorer added to the Triforce dashboard with peer platforms and country flags
- Triforce fixes for Asia reorg handling, Nethermind sealer work eviction and watcher reconnect hangs
- etc-nix client builders pointed at the client repos' current owners
Data
- Ethereum Classic Is Back in BigQuery published, on the restored public ETC dataset
- ETC BigQuery dataset brought to the chain head, with the traces gap filled and a balances table of about 102.9M rows
Research
- How Much ETH and ETC Sits Behind Exposed Public Keys published, with replication queries
- etchd, a timestamp calendar anchored to ETC, launched on mainnet
Community
- ETC Community Call 61 hosted, with OriginalMy on notarisation work on ETC
- ETC Community Call 62 hosted, covering clients, TOKEN2049, BigQuery, quantum bunker mode, praxeology and the Mumbai meetup
- @eth_classic topics included ETC in BigQuery, VeriFriday node posts, a 38% hashrate rise and the ECIP-1015 tenth anniversary
- 49 tweet PRs merged on @eth_classic, with 65 review approvals
- Contribunator media uploads to Vercel Blob, with resumable uploads, remote file links and presigned uploads for scripts
- Contribunator tweet form gained a 280-character counter and an X Premium option for long posts
- Unofficial ETC community survey built at survey.classix.dev, with a mining game, reviewed questions and translations
- r/EthereumClassic revamped and a new @eth_classic cover posted
- Media assets submitted to the ETC Media Kit
Events
- Reflections on TOKEN2049 published, with a Chinese translation
- Ethereum Classic Mumbai meetup announced for 2026-11-02 at Leopold Cafe, with a Matrix room for attendees
- Eighteen-station animated presentation on Ethereum Classic built for the Mumbai meetup
Website
- Run Your Own ETC Node, Part 1 published on ethereumclassic.org, building core-geth from source
- Part 2 of the node series, running core-geth in Docker, submitted to ethereumclassic.org
- ethereumclassic.org MetaMask guide RPC URL corrected and a GhostSwap service link added
- Remastered ETC mark, the Neo Logo, used across classix.dev
- classix.dev RSS feed, footer RSS and sitemap links and per-article OG images added
Internal
- A shared development environment with per-person workspaces
- A self-hosted team file workspace with document editing
- Media pipeline updates with streaming, clipping and search
- Automated infrastructure alerts to the team, one thread per incident
Not every item here is necessarily the work of Classix alone. Some of it may have been done jointly with other teams and projects in the Ethereum Classic ecosystem.