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Stacks, a Bitcoin-adjacent network often referred to as a layer-2, executed a scheduled hard fork early Tuesday following the September Nakamoto upgrade activated by network miners.

“I think it went as smoothly as we could have hoped,” said Muneeb Ali, Stacks co-founder, on a live X space. He added that developers in New York were up all night monitoring the fork.

The Nakamoto upgrade increased the alignment of Stacks with Bitcoin’s finality by further binding Stacks blocks to Bitcoin blocks. Stacks uses a consensus mechanism called Proof of Transfer (PoX), where transactions and…

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