Classix is an open source development agency with skin in the game, building and maintaining critical infrastructure for Ethereum Classic.
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Heading to #Devcon8 in Mumbai?
We're hosting an Ethereum Classic meetup on Nov 2, right after Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3.
We'll talk proof-of-work, client diversity, cypherpunk values, EVM symbiosis, and a lot more.
Free and open to all. RSVP below.
luma.com/flt0wvtq
Not one day in September went by without a new smart contract deployed on #EthereumClassic.
• Total: 1,309
• Daily average: ~44
• Busiest day: 10 Sept, 142
Same EVM you already build on. From our public BigQuery dataset. The query is in the reply.
Learn more about $ETC back in Google BigQuery: classix.dev/etc-in-bigquery
Query below:
SELECT
DATE(block_timestamp) AS day,
COUNT(*) AS contracts_deployed
FROM `classix-etc-data.crypto_ethereum_classic.traces`
WHERE trace_type = 'create'
AND status = 1
AND block_timestamp >= TIMESTAMP('2026-09-01')
AND block_timestamp < TIMESTAMP('2026-10-01')
GROUP BY day
ORDER BY day
Of the seven largest proof-of-work chains by market cap, only one runs the EVM: #EthereumClassic.
If you build in Solidity and want proof-of-work underneath with substantial hashrate behind it, the list starts and ends there.
Same contracts. Same tooling. Chain ID 61.
Read more in our TOKEN2049 Reflections:
classix.dev/reflections-on-t…
ETC Community Call #62 🍀 Bunker Mode
We talked in-depth about the quantum and AI threat to ECDSA and where $ETC stands, what's planned for the next core-geth v1.12.24 release, a look back at our trip to #TOKEN2049 and a lot more.
Listen below. 🎧
ETC Community Call #62 is live.🔥
• Where ETC stands on the quantum threat to ECDSA.
• What’s planned for the next core-geth release.
• Are preconfirmations and native stablecoins a good fit for $ETC?
Reflections on #TOKEN2049, and Alex from ETCMC.
#EthereumClassic #ETCCC #ClassicIsComing
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The 2016 fork split the chain. It didn’t split the research.
ETC upgrades keep bringing in Ethereum EIPs: Byzantium with Atlantis, Istanbul with Phoenix, most recently Shanghai with Spiral.
#Ethereum’s research makes $ETC better, and every EIP that crosses over gets a second life on proof of work.
We’d like more ideas to cross the fork in both directions.
More in our TOKEN2049 reflections:
classix.dev/reflections-on-t…
#VeriFriday-002
One of the best ways to contribute to Ethereum Classic is to run a node. 📡
This guide walks you step by step through getting set up and building core-geth from source. 🧑🏻💻
#VeriFriday-002
Running your own node is the difference between believing the chain and knowing it.
No third party. No API key. No one in between.
It’s the most underrated thing anyone in this community can do.
#EthereumClassic
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#Bitcoin proved proof-of-work money works.
#Ethereum made it programmable.
#Zcash keeps pushing proof-of-work forward on privacy and payment speed.
#EthereumClassic added zk-proof verification in 2019, and is still learning from all three.
That’s proof-of-work symbiosis.
Read more in our #TOKEN2049 reflections:
classix.dev/reflections-on-t…
Ethereum aims for “centuries-long cryptographic security, via hash-based schemes.” For its consensus, that means new keys for every validator.
Ethereum Classic’s proof-of-work already rests on hashes. Its consensus needs no migration.
Same EVM. Same Solidity. Same tooling. Same contracts.
More in our #TOKEN2049 reflections:
classix.dev/reflections-on-t…
Classix retweeted
1/ Project Triforce is a grid of Ethereum Classic nodes we run. It serves the public RPC and watches the network: client diversity, reorgs, the mempool and every peer it can see.
Four clients. Three providers. Three regions. Three sync modes.
Here’s why each number is there. 🧵
Classix retweeted
Heading to Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Nov. 2?
Join us after for a small Ethereum Classic meetup, the night before Devcon.
📍 Leopold Cafe, Colaba - 7pm
Quantum. Proof-of-Work. Cypherpunk roots. Where the EVM goes next.
Any chain, any background. Free
RSVP 👉 luma.com/flt0wvtq
#Devcon8
Classix retweeted
Zcash’s preconfirmations proposal: merchants get a signed receipt that a payment is on its way into a block.
Accept payments in seconds, not after confirmations. No consensus change, and it fits any proof-of-work chain, including Ethereum Classic.
Is it worth building on $ETC?
ALT credit to deltadevs for the zcash proposal and demo.
3/ Three providers (OVH, Cherry Servers and Latitude.sh) across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. No two nodes share a physical facility.
rpc.classix.dev sends you to the nearest region automatically.
4/ Three sync modes: archive, full and snap. They should always agree on the canonical chain.When they don’t, the dashboard shows it straight away.
That signal is the point.
Watch it live 👀 triforce.classix.dev
At TOKEN2049, Josh Swihart (@jswihart) of ZODL spoke in front of a photo of Prague, 1989.
The idea is parallel polis: if you can’t reform the institutions you have, build the ones you need beside them.
$ETC knows the move. In 2016 a small group couldn’t stop the fork, so they kept the original chain running beside it.
ALT Josh Swihard @ TOKEN2049 - Parallel Polis
Heading to Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Nov. 2?
Join us after for a small Ethereum Classic meetup, the night before Devcon.
📍 Leopold Cafe, Colaba - 7pm
Quantum. Proof-of-Work. Cypherpunk roots. Where the EVM goes next.
Any chain, any background. Free
RSVP 👉 luma.com/flt0wvtq
#Devcon8