I came across an article where - Emin Gün Sirer, professor of distributed systems at Cornell, introducing Avalanche (AVA), a new crypto protocol that is described as a platform for platforms.
One such platform to run on AVA is Athereum(ATH), a friendly fork which basically replicates the ethereum network, including all account balances and contracts, onto the new network.
In many ways it’s similar to a chain-split where 1 eth is equal to 1 corresponding coin, in this case, 1 eth plus 1 ATH (athereum).
There is no chain-split however, there’s no contention or anything, but everyone who has eth gets ath. The reason is because they want to showcase the new protocol which is based on what is claimed to be an anonymous paper.
"It describes a new family of consensus protocols that combines the best of Nakamoto consensus with the best of classical consensus. Huge breakthrough,” Sirer said on May 17th 2018.
>> Question: Do we really get free ATH if we have ETH? Will it be same as ETH?
Source:
https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/11/10/ethereum-fork-to-give-free-a-eth-meet-avaIt looks like he want to make classic fork of ETH.
If he do this correct, then YES, you will get 1 ATH for every 1 ETH.
Same have been done with BTC when Roger Ver makes fork and created BCH.
The question is, who needs that?
For me it is another trick to make money, nothing more.