The Ethereum (ETH) hard fork Istanbul was completed a bit later than scheduled, in the early hours of December 8. The upgrade arrived as nodes were mostly not ready. As of December 9, only 79 nodes remained without an upgrade, as most ran the hard fork version over the weekend.
Exchanges were on board with the change, and most went through a brief maintenance period of ETH and ERC-20 wallets.
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The hard fork did not have the expected price effect on ETH, as the asset settled around a new level of stability. ETH traded at $149....