Ethereum (available on Coinbase) (ETH) is up over 71% for the month, as its devs prepare for its upcoming hard fork. The major hard fork was supposed to take place in 2018 but was pushed back. Since then, the whole Ethereum (available on Coinbase) community has been steadily working to bring this thing to life. Now, it finally has an end date. The hard fork is scheduled to occur on block #7,080,000, which should happen around January 16th.

Ethereum (available on Coinbase) Constantinople Countdown

This particular hard fork has been in preparation since 2017, and it promises key upgrades to the Ethereum (available on Coinbase) network.

#Ethereum (available on Coinbase) mainnet Constantinople hardfork (16th of January) is fast approaching. Please make sure you are running GETH 1.8.20+ or Parity 2.1.10+/2.2.5+ to avoid unpleasant surprises!
— Péter Szilágyi (@peter_szilagyi) January 7, 2019

In addition to the upgrades to GETH and Parity, Rinkeby will also receive an upgrade. This testnet hard fork is set to take place tomorrow at 13:00 UTC. The Ropsten Testnet was the first to receive an upgrade, back in October. However, it was plagued quickly with several issues. This is what caused Ethereum (available on Coinbase) Constantinople to be pushed back.