According to Foresight News, the Stardust protocol upgrade of the blockchain network IOTA and the network fork of IOTA will be carried out at 14:00 Beijing time on October 4. The upgrade will introduce a tokenization framework and the ability to anchor the L2 smart contract chain on it. In addition, the original IOTA network will be forked, resulting in an increase in the supply of the IOTA network based on the Stardust protocol version; IOTA Classic will also be based on the IOTA Stardust protocol, but retain the old supply.

The fork is expected to experience 4 hours of downtime, and after the Stardust upgrade, node operators should upgrade their software to the latest Hornet version, version 2.0.0, which will be released soon.