Bitcoin will undergo two fork events in 2026, with BTC holders set to receive new assets at a 1:1 ratio.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Bitcoin will see two fork events in 2026. Developer Paul Sztorc plans to launch a deliberate hard fork called eCash, expected to activate around August 21 at block height 964,000. Another controversial soft fork proposal, BIP-110, has the potential to inadvertently cause a chain split during the August signaling window. A Bitcoin chain split duplicates the UTXO set, granting holders a 1:1 asset on both ledgers. The viability of the forked coin depends on replay protection, mining difficulty, and market conditions. Self-custody holders, who control their private keys at the time of the snapshot, can typically sign transactions on either chain; custody holdings, where the exchange controls the private keys at the snapshot, mean whether users receive the forked coin depends on the platform's policy. (Bitcoin.com News)