Zilliqa Hard Fork on September 2, 2026: What Happens to Your ZIL in the Migration

If you hold ZIL on a crypto exchange and have been unable to deposit or withdraw for weeks, September 2, 2026 is the day that is meant to change. On that date, at block height 34,844,968 and an estimated 12:58 UTC, Zilliqa executes a hard fork that moves the ZIL balances of ten exchanges out of the old wallets into new addresses. The venues involved then intend to reopen deposits and withdrawals. You do not have to do anything yourself. If you keep your ZIL in your own wallet on the old network, a second and larger process applies to you, and it still carries no date: every holder on the old side will have to migrate later, including everyone who was never robbed. Neither event is a planned upgrade. Both go back to a signing flaw in the Zilliqa Ledger app. By Zilliqa's own accounting, 683,130,969.66 ZIL drained out of 6,772 accounts as a result. This article separates the two levels: what actually happens on September 2, and what remains open afterwards. What a hard fork is and what happens at Zilliqa on September 2, 2026 A hard fork is a rule change to a blockchain that makes old and new software incompatible: from a set block onwards only the new rulebook applies, and anyone who ...