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A soft fork is a backward-compatible upgrade to a blockchain protocol where only previously valid blocks are made invalid. Non-upgraded nodes can still participate in the network, though they may not enforce the new rules. Soft forks are generally considered less disruptive than hard forks and are often used for incremental improvements like Bitcoin's SegWit upgrade.