Bitcoin Cash price faces a key one-minute-block milestone
Published on 11/15/2026 at 13:08 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSBitcoin Cash upgrade milestone explained
- Faster Blocks is scheduled for a November 15 lock-in, with one-minute blocks targeted for the 2027 mainnet upgrade.
- A BCHD draft implementation maps the mainnet activation to May 15, 2027, while chipnet is scheduled for the November 15 test-network activation.
- CME began trading Bitcoin Cash futures in October, adding a regulated derivatives venue for BCH exposure and risk management.
Bitcoin Cash price is entering a scheduled network milestone as developers and node teams assess the Faster Blocks proposal. The change targets a reduction in the network's block interval from 10 minutes to one minute, but it would not alter Bitcoin Cash mainnet immediately.
Lock-in is scheduled for November 15
TradingView reported on November 13 that Faster Blocks was scheduled for lock-in on November 15, 2026. The report said the Knuth node team considered the project on track and described the proposal as a change to the interval between Bitcoin Cash blocks. It also noted that testing was continuing, so the eventual effect on BCH depends on the upgrade reaching that milestone. TradingView linked the timing to a statement from Bitcoin Cash contributor BitcoinCashOG.
Testing precedes mainnet activation
A draft implementation in the BCHD project provides a more detailed timetable. The pull request describes CHIP-2025-03 as a proposal to move the target interval to 60 seconds. It assigns an activation time of May 15, 2027, at 12:00 UTC to mainnet, while chipnet is assigned an activation time of November 15, 2026, at 12:00 UTC. The same implementation notes that consensus remains unchanged before activation. The BCHD pull request is marked as a draft and says that no mainnet or testnet4 synchronization was performed on that branch.
What the change could mean
For network participants, shorter target intervals would change the rhythm of block production and require compatible node and mining software before the mainnet activation. The draft implementation describes adjustments to consensus accounting, mining templates, transaction timing and block-size handling. These are technical consequences of the proposed rule change, not evidence of a completed upgrade or a direct valuation effect for BCH.
Regulated derivatives add market infrastructure
The network milestone comes after CME Group announced on October 20 that FalconX and GSR had executed the first block trade in its Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures. CME said the contracts were trading on its 24-hour marketplace and were designed to provide tools for managing cryptocurrency risk and exposure. The exchange lists both standard and micro Bitcoin Cash futures, with contracts cash-settled against the BCHUSD reference rate. CME Group said the first trades marked the start of trading in the new contracts.
For investors, the key distinction is between a scheduled test-network milestone and a later mainnet activation. Bitcoin Cash price developments remain separate from the technical timetable, while the implementation status and node compatibility will determine whether the proposed one-minute structure reaches production.
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