| ETC Weekly! Mantis development update, Magneto hard-fork, Saturn V2, Keccak-256 on Besu 📢 Thank you for reading the ETC Weekly newsletter! You may have noticed we took a short hiatus, but now we're back! We've been focusing our efforts to deliver the ETC Cooperative 2020 Retrospective and 2021 Roadmap. With transparency is at our core, we will soon share both documents with the community. Below we cover notable developments, updates, and events happening in the Ethereum Classic ecosystem. Enjoy! ECIP 1103: Magneto EVM and Protocol Upgrades Recently ETC Core developer, Afri Schoedon, proposed the Magneto hard-fork upgrade. Magneto is comprised of the outstanding Ethereum Foundation's Berlin network protocol upgrades for Ethereum Classic, code-named Magneto. It will enable maximum compatibility across these networks. These changes have all been in use on the Ethereum network since early 2021. To learn more about Magneto check out ECIP-1109 in the ECIP repository. In the meantime, make sure you are running the latest version clients , compatible with the December Thanos hard-fork, seen below. Mantis February development update Since the return of IOHK to the ecosystem, their team has been hard at work implementing updates to their node client, testing ECIPs on their Sagano testnet, and providing frequent community updates. You can find more information by going to Mantisclient.io. Keccak-256 mining support for Hyperledger Besu
ETC Cooperative has finalized its Keccak-256 statement of work with Antoine Toulme, a former protocol engineer at Conensys and CTO at WhiteBlock. The scope of work includes integrating Keccak mining support into Hyperledger Besu, delivering a functioning Astor testnet, providing assistance to run the Astor testnet, and several other items. Most recently, work began on implementing Keccak-256 mining support into Hyperledger Besu. The ETC Cooperative will soon share a blog post detailing this work and how it sees the pathway forward to successfully activating Keccak-256 on ETC. Saturn Protocol V2 Saturn Protocol v2 is a major upgrade to the protocol that powers our decentralized exchange. The successful launch of Saturn protocol v2 will mark the completion of the Prometheus stage of our roadmap. It introduces a number of key new features that improve the protocol across the board for all its investors, users and stakeholders. There is still work left on protocol migration and user interface among other things. By now it should be quite clear that DeFi is the way. Saturn is taking the precautions to build something that is future proof. They plan on sharing their 2021 roadmap later this quarter. For now they're focused on shipping protocol v2. Let us know what you think! We hope you enjoy reading ETC Weekly as much as we love making it! We'd love to hear from you. You can find our contact information in the details below. See you soon! | 
