Uphold Academy: What is a Soft Fork?

A soft fork occurs as a result of a change to the blockchain protocol that is backward-compatible. This means that miners and nodes that are running on a previous version of the software can still accept blocks produced by nodes running on the updated software, ensuring unified continuity for the network and the maintenance of a single network.

Typically a soft fork introduces new rules or restrictions that can make previous transactions that were valid to become invalid, for example fixing security vulnerability and enhancing existing functionality, meaning overall the protocol's rules become much tighter.

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