Blockchain Protocol Antelope Takes ‘Leap of Freedom’ as it Forks Of EOSIO; EOS Jumps

cryptonews.com:

The blockchain protocol Antelope has taken what it describes as a “leap of freedom” and forked its protocol off development firm Block.one’s EOSIO platform and instead embraced the rival EOS Network Foundation.

According to an announcement from Antelope, the project has already launched a new website and shared a public release of the Antelope Github repository. Going forward, Antelope will be run by a Coalition led by the EOS Network Foundation, with participation by community members from EOS and the blockchain networks Telos, Wax, and UX Network.

EOS Network Foundation is an organization that was formed in opposition to Block.one after the latter was accused of failing to add value to the blockchain. Among other things, it was said that EOS missed out on the decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) booms, and has seen an exodus of developers under Block.one’s watch.

As reported back in December, the foundation, composed of the dissatisfied members of the EOS community who claim that Block.one is no longer acting in the network’s best interests, rebelled against the company in a bid to gain the EOS network’s intellectual property.

To move Antelope forward under the EOS Network Foundation, all Coalition members will share the project’s underlying blockchain codebase, while a development treasury will be available for participants “to continuously improve upon the core protocol,” Wednesday’s announcement said.

It added that it now falls on Antelope to “fly the flag for iterating the codebase and rejuvenating the community.” Further, the announcement noted that new innovations, including Application Programming Interface (API) improvements, history pruning, and enhanced cryptographic functions, will now be