Galaxy Digital researcher Christine Kim shares recap of latest Ethereum All Core Devs meeting
Ethereum All Core Devs Meeting #136 took place on April 15, 2022. High-level Ethereum (ETH) developers discussed the next phases of pre-merger testing and the Shanghai upgrade.
More shadow forks, abandoned Rinkeby, Shanghai proposal campaign stops: ACD #136 at a glance
Ms. Kim has taken to Twitter to share some details of the results of yesterday’s conference of Ethereum (ETH) developers regarding its last pre-Merge testnets.
The developers have analyzed the results of the recent pioneer mainnet ghost fork and have decided to stage two more similar updates next week on the Goerli testnet and Ethereum mainnet.
Then, EF researcher and developer Tim Beiko proposed to fork Ropsten testnet and, once this is done, the Goerli and Sepolia networks. Rinkeby testnet, therefore, should be abandoned by all dApps still using its infrastructure.
Ethereum (ETH) core developers will no longer be accepting proposals for Shanghai, the first-ever post-merger network hardfork expected to take place within the first six months of Ethereum Proof-of-Stake (PoS).
Ethereum devs still target Q3, 2022, as The Merge date
As covered by U.Today previously, this upgrade will include the introduction of EVM Object Format or EOF, a new type of smart contracts, and other crucial improvements.
Ms. Kim did not share any updates on the timing of The Merge as it is still unclear when the Ethereum (ETH) “difficulty bomb” will be delayed next. The third quarter of 2022 remains the target, however.
On April 13, 2022, Tim Beiko announced that Ethereum’s migration to Proof-of-Stake would start “not in June,” but a few months later.
