Ethereum Classic Labs Core (or ETC Labs Core for short), a large blockchain developers group, has a new name: ETC Core.

Stevan Lohja, the technology coordinator for ETC Core, announced the rebranding on December 15th. He predicts that the company’s new name will distinguish itself from ETC Labs, which was one of the first organizations to support groundbreaking projects related to Ethereum Classic blockchain.

The development team behind Ethereum Classic at ETC Labs Core was also introduced earlier this year. Since then, ETC Core’s team has been working on important projects related to ETC, which provides tools for services, mining, and regionalized application development, and supports the coin’s blockchain as well.

Coming Soon: Agharta Hard Fork

ETC Core’s developers and other ecosystem stakeholder participants made a joint agreement on an objective number for a testnet review and mainnet activation for reassurance. On January 15th, 2020 the core developers plan on activating Agharta on the mainnet at block 9573000, so long as the necessary configurations are made and the testnets are running efficiently. From there, Agharta will move on to the accepted status and become finalized once it’s activated across clients on mainnet.

Ethereum Classic’s Successful Implementation of Atlantis Hard Fork

Back in September, the ETC team activated Atlantis Hard Fork, which is intended to improve the compatibility and functionality of their altcoin with Ethereum. Yaz Khoury, ETC’s Director of Development Relations, congratulated Ethereum Classic’s development. He appeared to be very pleased with their successful activation of Atlantis Hard Fork, as it had been debated upon for a long time before a consensus had been reached along with some politics related to immutability. Mr. Khoury learned a lot about community distribution and the splendor of decentralization.