In Brief:
- Ronin used a post on its official X account to announce a network upgrade set for next week.
- The post promised to explain “what’s actually changing,” but as of Sept. 30 there was no independent confirmation of a block height, start time or technical changes.
- It is the first upgrade Ronin has flagged since its May 12 hard fork. That fork turned the chain from an independent sidechain into an Ethereum layer 2 built on the OP Stack.
The Ronin team said on X that the network will be upgraded next week.
“Ronin is getting an upgrade next week,” the network wrote. “Here’s what’s actually changing”
Ronin is getting an upgrade next week.
Here's what's actually changing@RoninView on X ↗
The post did not include a block height, a start time or an estimate of any downtime. As of Sept. 30, no exchange had published a notice about pausing deposits or withdrawals because of the upgrade.
What happened during earlier forks
Exchanges have paused Ronin transfers before previous upgrades. During the May migration, OKX suspended deposits and withdrawals for every token on the Ronin network from 22:00 (UTC+8) on May 12, 2026. Trading in RONIN and related tokens carried on.
Bithumb stopped RON deposits and withdrawals at 9:00 a.m. UTC on May 11. Binance said it would take care of the migration for users holding the token on its platform, so those users had nothing to do. It added that RON pairs would keep trading while transfers were on hold.
Players and everyday users did not need to do anything in May. Validators and node operators, however, had to update their software to stay compatible.
Inside the May migration
Ronin’s most recent hard fork went live on May 12 at block 55,577,490. The network was offline for about 10 hours as it moved from an independent EVM sidechain to an Ethereum layer 2 on Optimism’s OP Stack.
Ahead of the fork, Ronin warned that “All network transactions will be paused.” That included transfers, swaps and game actions.
Optimism, Conduit, Boundless and EigenLayer supported the migration. Ethereum provides settlement and finality, and EigenDA handles off-chain data availability. Axie Infinity (official site) and Pixels were back up right after the switch.
The fork also changed how the token works. Under the new Proof of Distribution model, annual RON inflation fell from more than 20% to under 1%, and 90 million RON that had been set aside for staking rewards went to the treasury instead.
The share of marketplace fees paid to the treasury rose from 0.5% to 1.25%. Governance switched to token-weighted voting, so RON holders now vote directly on treasury decisions, buybacks and DeFi initiatives. Ronin also made Uniswap v3 its canonical DEX and supported it with a $1.5 million liquidity incentive program.
A history of upgrades
This isn’t the network’s first scheduled fork. One went live at block 28,825,400 on Oct. 26, 2023. Another came at block 32,367,400 in February 2024, and Binance paused Ronin deposits and withdrawals for it on Feb. 26.
The Cerastes upgrade went live at block 43,447,600 on March 17, 2025. It added fee burning and a buyback program paid for by the treasury. Another network upgrade followed on July 3, 2025, at block 46,557,383.
The March 2022 bridge exploit was one reason for the move to layer 2. In that attack, the Lazarus Group stole $625 million.
When the May migration happened, the Sky Mavis team said: “Four years ago, we launched Ronin because Axie Infinity needed a faster and more efficient network. The time has come to plug back into the mothership.”