IOTA will undergo the Stardust upgrade and network fork tomorrow, with an expected downtime of 4 hours

ChainCatcher message, the official announcement shows that the IOTA network will undergo the Stardust upgrade on October 4th at 14:00 Beijing time, during which a network fork will occur, and a downtime of approximately 4 hours is expected. Node operators should upgrade their software to the upcoming latest Hornet version, version number 2.0.0.

The Stardust protocol upgrade will introduce a tokenization framework, and IOTA will also have the capability to anchor L2 smart contract chains on it. Additionally, IOTA Classic will also be based on the IOTA Stardust protocol but will retain the old supply.