What Is a Blockchain Soft Fork?

A soft fork in cryptocurrency is a change to a backward-compatible blockchain network protocol. This means that nodes running the new software version will still be able to communicate and validate transactions with nodes running the old version. This is in contrast to a hard fork, a change to the protocol that is not backward-compatible and requires all nodes to upgrade to the new version of the software. An example of a soft fork would be a change to the…