Speaking at the Electronic Cash Conference in Barcelona, eCash founder Amaury Séchet announced the launch schedule for the “Pre-Consensus” feature scheduled for the network upgrade on November 15th.
Avalanche style pre-consensus coming to eCash on November 15th
Pre-Consensus will be enabled on mainnet as part of the upcoming eCash (XEC) upgrade, formalizing a feature that has long been discussed within the project's roadmap. The announcement was made during the Electronic Cash conference in Barcelona, where Amaury Sechet outlined the purpose and activation mechanism.
Pre-Consensus integrates Avalanche-style consensus within eCash and adds quick transaction finality prior to block generation. Project documentation explains that this is the first example of instant finality on a proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain, with the goal of confirmation within three seconds, and aims to reduce the need for probabilistic settlement in everyday payments.
“Pre-consensus is a milestone, not just for eCash, but for digital cash technology in general,” Seche said at the Electronic Cash conference in Barcelona.
Regarding exchanges and services, the team says this change will allow deposits to be made without waiting for multiple block confirmations. Current service providers listed as supporting Avalanche finality for eCash include Binance, Upbit, Bithumb, HTX, and Coinex, with public scorecards to track integrations and planned deployments.
Developers characterize eCash as a hybrid of nakamoto and Avalanche that maintains proof-of-work while overlaying Avalanche's up-front consensus to speed payments. According to project documentation and an announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News, the Avalanche implementation on eCash is separate from the AVAX network and was developed by the Bitcoin ABC team.
Activation is programmed for November 15th and is on hold until a network upgrade is performed across compatible nodes. Additional background on Instant Finality's integration with Avalanche is available on the project website and in the scorecard that tracks service support. The team says it will be updated as more services enable this feature.
