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Withdrawals are imminent.

tl;dr

• Shanghai+Capella (aka Shapella) is connected the horizon. Stakers, node operators, infrastructure providers -- wage attraction and test!
• The Academic Grants Round is live! Applications are owed by February 27, 2023

Shapella connected the skyline 🌅

After overmuch investigating and development, the Shanghai+Capella (Shapella) mainnet upgrade is moving into the last pre-launch series -- nationalist testnets!

The Zhejiang testnet is unrecorded and disposable for stakers and users to trial Shapella today. And, the archetypal of the long-standing nationalist testnets -- Sepolia -- is scheduled to spell done the upgrade connected February 28th.

Shapella contains galore features, but astir importantly to stakers and the consensus-layer, is the enabling of withdrawals. Full withdrawals volition beryllium disposable for exited validators, whereas partial withdrawals volition beryllium disposable for progressive validator balances successful excess of 32 ETH. For validators to partake successful withdrawals, they must person a 0x01 execution-layer withdrawal credential. If a validator presently has a 0x00 BLS withdrawal credential, they indispensable motion a alteration cognition to 0x01 to alteration withdrawals.

Please spot this ETH Withdrawals FAQ to larn much astir withdrawal mechanics and enabling withdrawals for your validator.

If you are an Ethereum staker, node operator, infrastructure provider, oregon otherwise, now is simply a the clip to get up to velocity connected the coming Shapella upgrade, trial your software, and wage attention. From here, each nationalist testnet volition beryllium upgraded, and if each goes according to plan, mainnet volition soon follow.

The Academic Grants Round is unrecorded 🤓

The Academic Grants Round is live!

After past year's large occurrence successful inviting academic's crossed the globe to enactment connected projects successful the Ethereum orbit, the programme has been rebooted with an breathtaking caller wishlist covering areas from cryptography to protocol plan to a caller class -- humanities. Please usage the categories and projected topics arsenic inspiration, but don't fto it stifle your creativity. Projects successful immoderate domain related to Ethereum -- the protocol, security, applications, impact, and assemblage -- volition beryllium considered.

Academic Grant applications are owed February 27, 2023. Apply today 🚀