Ethereum dev confirms Goerli merger date, the final update before the Merge

  • 📰 Cointelegraph
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 40 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 19%
  • Publisher: 51%

Canada News News

Canada Canada Latest News,Canada Canada Headlines

The Merge is close. The years-long journey reaches the final stage with the announcement of the final testnet merge to the Beacon chain. (Reporting via _prashantjha)

The testnet merger will be completed in two phases starting on Aug. 4 with the Bellatrix upgrade on the consensus layer. The Bellatrix upgrade will be triggered by the epoch height of 112260.

Ethereum’s PoS network progresses in epochs instead of blocks, where one epoch is a bundle of up to 32 blocks. The second phase of the upgrade will be called Paris, where the execution layer will transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. This phase is expected to be completed between August 6–12. The Paris upgrade will be triggered by a specific Terminal Total Difficulty of 10790000. Once the execution layer crosses the threshold TTD, the next block will be solely produced by a PoS validator.

The official announcement noted that the upcoming Goerli merge will be different from the early testnet integration since the node operators need to update both their consensus layer and execution layer clients in tandem, rather than just one of the two. The developer team also

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 562. in CA

Canada Canada Latest News, Canada Canada Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Ethereum developers announce date for Goerli testnet mergerThe Goerlia/Prater testnet merge is scheduled for early next month.
Source: TheBlock__ - 🏆 464. / 53 Read more »

Ethereum developers announce date for Goerli testnet mergerThe Goerlia/Prater testnet merge is scheduled for early next month.
Source: TheBlock__ - 🏆 464. / 53 Read more »