MultiversX Supernova on September 10: The Hard Fork Checklist for EGLD Holders

On September 10, 2026, the MultiversX network switches over to the Supernova hard fork. For you as an EGLD holder, the most important answer is a reassuring one: if your coins sit in your own wallet, you have nothing to do. There is no token swap, no migration and no claim you would have to register. Addresses, private keys and balances remain backwards compatible according to the project. Anyone who prompts you to take action over the coming days is trying to defraud you.

There is still something to be done, and it concerns three places: balances on an exchange, staking, and running a node of your own. The hard fork halts the network for roughly 24 minutes, during which no new transactions are accepted. Anyone needing a withdrawal in that window is better off arranging it beforehand. If you intend to move your coins from the exchange into self-custody anyway, a network upgrade is a good occasion for it; which devices come into question is set out in our hardware wallet comparison.

This text answers the questions that have not been put in writing anywhere so far: when the fork really takes effect according to the round arithmetic, how far node migration has actually come today, why the staking unbonding period still takes ten days despite a tenfold increase in speed, and how to recognize the fraud pattern that accompanies dates like this one.