diff --git a/src/blocks/checkpoints.dat b/src/blocks/checkpoints.dat
index 59a9eb797..4ce0b965a 100644
Binary files a/src/blocks/checkpoints.dat and b/src/blocks/checkpoints.dat differ
diff --git a/src/checkpoints/checkpoints.cpp b/src/checkpoints/checkpoints.cpp
index 6ecfd510e..bc9ff1eb0 100644
--- a/src/checkpoints/checkpoints.cpp
+++ b/src/checkpoints/checkpoints.cpp
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ namespace cryptonote
       return true;
     }
     // make RPC call to daemon
-    // curl http://127.0.0.1:34568/json_rpc -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"0","method":"get_block","params":{"height":271600}}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
+    // curl http://127.0.0.1:34568/json_rpc -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"0","method":"get_block","params":{"height":278300}}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
     // "wide_cumulative_difficulty": "0x14eb4d0131fe8",
     ADD_CHECKPOINT2(1,       "97f4ce4d7879b3bea54dcec738cd2ebb7952b4e9bb9743262310cd5fec749340", "0x2");
     ADD_CHECKPOINT2(6969,    "aa7b66e8c461065139b55c29538a39c33ceda93e587f84d490ed573d80511c87", "0x118eef693fd");  //Hard fork to v8
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ namespace cryptonote
     ADD_CHECKPOINT2(254287,  "b37cb55abe73965b424f8028bf71bef98d069645077ffa52f0c134907b7734e3", "0x1746622f56668"); //Hard fork to v17
     ADD_CHECKPOINT2(256700,  "389a8ab95a80e84ec74639c1078bc67b33af208ef00f53bd9609cfc40efa7059", "0x185ace3c1bd68");
     ADD_CHECKPOINT2(271600,  "9597cdbdc52ca57d7dbd8f9c0a23a73194ef2ebbcfdc75c21992672706108d43", "0x1e2d2d6a2a9e8");
+    ADD_CHECKPOINT2(278300,  "b10dcdf7a51651f60fbcc0447409773eef1458d2c706d9a61daf467571ac19c9", "0x20a83a16d3968");
     return true;
   }
 
diff --git a/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp b/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp
index b3cc0244d..94cc56df8 100644
--- a/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp
+++ b/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp
@@ -5458,7 +5458,7 @@ void Blockchain::cancel()
 }
 
 #if defined(PER_BLOCK_CHECKPOINT)
-static const char expected_block_hashes_hash[] = "bd1d32aed063dd71c1355dc950eb0fc22b10e41530029f54d40a0fd6f6b328f1";
+static const char expected_block_hashes_hash[] = "44393af098c4738ecbe664292bc345c0acb40573562cac8bb67cea75debe9f1b";
 void Blockchain::load_compiled_in_block_hashes(const GetCheckpointsCallback& get_checkpoints)
 {
   if (get_checkpoints == nullptr || !m_fast_sync)