Tron News today – recall that the Tron Foundation recently acquired Steemit, Steem’s social media dApp. The acquisition caused a protracted battle between Justine Sun and Steem’s community. The fight was over which side will lead the chain. For the initial hard fork, a key change was that all tokens from the first development fund that was done under Steemit’s control won’t be moved to the new chain. Instead of continuing the fight for the Steem Blockchain, prominent community leaders are hoping to take Steem with them to somewhere more favorable.

The Nature of the Steem Network Makes the Fork Fairly Easy

The developers of the fork will create a copy of the Blockchain. This means, with a hard fork, the inventory of blogging data is saved. Meanwhile, other dApps supporting blogging functions can redirect to the copy of the data. The majority of the dApps apart from Steemit will have this capability. Steemian, an alternative to Steemit, stated that it would make the switch completely, though it would be delayed for a couple of weeks so that users can transition over.

The Splinterlands game, a very popular game on Steem’s dApp, confirmed that it would also make the switch only after the new Blockchain was stable and the team had successfully adjusted the technology. The owner of block explorer SteemD said it would initiate a model format that allows users to choose between both options. For several dApps. The switch is going to require re-branding.

The fork also captures the decentralized structure of Blockchains. The two chains will have the entire content brought forward before the hard fork. The Blockchain future content that will be posted will depend on the user interface the user utilizes. For example, if a user likes blogging on Steemit, the entirety of their post-hard-fork content will be saved on the chain that has Justin Sun’s tokens. When asked to give comments on this latest development, the Tron Foundation did not respond.

The Changes we Should Expect

Regarding Steem’s token supplies, all developers will make a snapshot of the entire wallets at some block before allocating the same token volume to the remaining wallets on the new Blockchain. Everyone holding tokens on Steem will have their tokens on the new chain as well. The exception will be for all Steemit wallets that are controlled by the Tron Foundation. Finally, they will be one major change that allows exchanges to be less likely to stake their tokens on anyone’s behalf (who is trying to initiate a governance coup).