Finalized no. 36

tl;dr

Merge series engaged 🚀

Mainnet Merge incoming

Yesterday connected the Consensus Layer call, lawsuit engineers agreed connected Mainnet parameters for the Merge -- a Bellatrix epoch of 144896 and a Paris TTD of 58750000000000000000000 (tentative). The TTD is based connected Proof-of-Work trouble and is frankincense a spot hard to estimation precisely. The target date is September 15, 2022, but this estimation mightiness person adjacent a week of error. On this coming week's All Core Dev telephone estimates volition beryllium re-checked, and the TTD volition either beryllium confirmed oregon a last accommodation volition beryllium made to amended deed the people date.

Reminder💡: The Merge consists of a series of 2 upgrades -- Bellatrix connected the Consensus Layer followed by Paris connected the Execution Layer.

Bellatrix upgrades the Beacon Chain to beryllium "Merge aware", embedding the Beacon Chain with the Merge logic arsenic validators statesman dilligently monitoring the Proof-of-Work concatenation to initiate the Merge transition. Bellatrix is activated astatine the chosen epoch.

Paris is the Merge modulation itself, successful which Ethereum Mainnet hot-swaps its statement from Proof-of-Work to the Beacon Chain's Proof-of-Stake. The Paris upgrade activates astatine the chosen Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD).

⚠️ All hands connected platform ⚠️

Stakers, infrastructure providers, users, and assemblage members -- this is your warning. The Merge mainnet series is engaged. For the adjacent ~5 weeks, enactment tuned, ticker for updates, stay agile, and beryllium acceptable for anything. The pursuing is the precocious level of dates and events expected to unfold:

• [2022/08/18] -- TTD reassessed and finalized connected All Core Devs call
• [2022/08/18 to 2022/8/22] -- EL and CL teams chopped Mainnet bundle releases
• [2022/08/23] -- Client resources, EF blog, and different assemblage and infrastructure announcements of last parameters and releases
• [2022/09/06 11:34:47am UTC] -- Bellatrix Mainnet upgrade
  • All stakers must upgrade to EL+CL Merge-ready nodes earlier this time
  • All infrastructure providers, users, and assemblage members should upgrade PoW nodes to EL+CL Merge-ready nodes earlier this time
• [Estimated: 2022/9/15] -- Paris Mainnet Merge transition
  • All infrastructure providers, users, and assemblage members must upgrade to EL+CL Merge-ready nodes earlier this time. Plan connected configuring systems astatine slightest 1 week successful beforehand and ideally earlier Bellatrix

Between archetypal mainnet merchandise announcements and the last Merge transition, users indispensable stay diligent -- monitoring lawsuit channels, the EF blog, and different nationalist resources for immoderate caller information. Specifically, lawsuit teams mightiness merchandise last hardened versions of their bundle successful this clip framework and, if possible, users should upgrade.

Huge shout-out to the engineers, researchers, and assemblage members that person worked tirelessly, putting countless hours into this. Merge series engaged 🚀