To clarify, yesterday's chain split was unrelated to the announcement of the Crown fork that is mentioned in the post I'm quoting above.I'll post the response that the development team gave just after the announcement was made from their end.
Recently it was announced that the Crown project (and its blockchain) would be forked by community members. Although not much information regarding the fork has been released yet, we would like to address this situation and give the development teams response to this announcement.
1. This fork is not an official Crown Platform release. Our current team, development and blockchain are kept. Our next official release is planned for July with governance fixes, new InstantSend features and various merges.
2. This fork WILL NOT affect your CRW tokens, wallets, Masternodes, Systemnodes or mining gear. The fork will likely be a copy of our current blockchain and continue in a separate direction under a different name.
3. No-one in the Crown development team is involved in the fork announcement. The core team will not change because of this fork and we all still have the same goal, which is making the Crown Platform a leading application platform for businesses and individuals, which is strongly community-driven and self-sustaining.
4. Crown is an open-source project and so anyone is free to fork it. Satoshi Nakamoto never intended Bitcoin to be the one true blockchain solution - and neither do we intend that for Crown. Decentralization over centralization, progress over stagnation.
5. As we have understood it thus far, the new project doesnt intend to be Crowns competitor but bring it in a different direction.
6. We are excited that the new projects developers have chosen the Crown code as its basis over hundreds of other projects. It speaks for the quality of our code and the skills of our developers that the fork will use the Crown codebase and build on it.
In conclusion, we wish the new projects developers the best of luck with their endeavours. To the Crown community: this fork will not delay the development of the Crown Platform or any other features we are working on. We are as motivated as ever and will continue working towards our goals as hard as we can. For instance our Crown Electrum wallet was just released (https://medium.com/crownplatform/electrum-crown-release-95a5dc6ef6af) and we still plan to implement Proof-of-Stake in the near future.
If you have any remaining questions, dont hesitate to contact us on Mattermost [https://mm.crownlab.eu] or Telegram [https://t.me/CrownPlatform].
Thank you as ever for your continued support,
The Crown core development team