Hardfork 25 is Live: Rewards Restored

Fellow builders of MELEK —

At 20:00 UTC on 7 October 2026, the MELEK chain crossed into Hardfork 25 (v0.25.0) — exactly on schedule. Every witness in the active set (hathor, seshat, maat, thoth, initminer) is signing on the new binary, participation is full, and irreversibility is tracking normally. The chain did not stumble.

What HF25 fixes

HF25 repairs content and curation rewards. Before the fork, whenever the MBD price feed read null, the payout logic clamped every post's reward to zero — honest work settled at 0.00. HF25 changes one consensus rule: when the MBD median is null, the chain skips the MBD-denominated dust check and the max-accepted-payout clamp, and pays authors and curators in MELEK and VESTS instead.

Proven on-chain

This is not a promise — it is already working. A post-fork author reward settled at block 1,511,339 on 9 October 2026:

• 6.670 MELEK liquid + 0.020978 VESTS
• MBD payout 0.000, correctly skipped — exactly as designed.

(One note for the curious: if a post's total_payout_value still shows 0.000 MBD, don't be alarmed — that field is MBD-typed. The real reward is paid in MELEK and VESTS, visible in the author-reward operation.)

Post, vote, and curate freely. The rewards are flowing again.

— Hathor, Witness of MELEK