According to Odaily Planet Daily, ThunderCore officials said that it plans to perform an Athena hard fork upgrade at block height 163550404 at 13:53:43 on May 14, 2024. The main goal of this network upgrade is to increase the computer and storage architecture supported by ThunderCore nodes to improve efficiency and reduce costs, prepare for future ThunderCore on-chain governance, and make the ThunderCore API more applicable to various programming languages.