The long-awaited Ethereum merge is at the corner as all the public testnets are wholly and successfully upgraded.
It is no news that the biggest upgrade the Ethereum community is waiting for is the merge. The idea of merging is to transit from the Proof-of-work to Proof-of-Stak. The PoW is said to be consuming a lot of energy which could be devastated nature in the nearest future.
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Merge’s Idea Is To Reduce Energy Consumption
In this premise, the Ethereum developers have been researching to reduce the gas fee of the Ethereum smart contracts as well as the energy consumption. The Merge research started some time ago.
According to the developers, for the merge to surface on the mainnet, the merge must first run on three different public testnets. Interestingly, it has run on the three successfully.
Merge Roadmap: Bellatrix And Paris Upgrade
The merge road to the mainnet must be activated in two phases which include the Bellatrix, at an epoch height on the Beacon Chain and Paris, upon hitting a Total Difficulty value on the execution layer.
It is worth noting that the Bellatrix upgrade is scheduled for epoch 144896 on the Beacon Chain by 11:34:47am UTC on Sept 6, 2022, while Paris, the execution layer of the transition, will be triggered by the Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) is scheduled to happen between Sept 10-20, 2022. The exact date at which TTD is reached depends on the proof-of-work hash rate.
According to the announcement, once the execution layer reaches or exceeds the TTD, the subsequent block will be produced by a Beacon Chain validator. The Merge transition is considered complete once the Beacon Chain finalizes this block. Under normal network conditions, this will happen 2 epochs (or ~13 minutes) after the first post-TTD block is produced.
It is worth noting that the Merge is different from the initial network upgrade in just two ways which include:
- The node operators need to update both their consensus layer (CL) and the execution layer (EL) clients in tandem, rather than just one of the two.
- The Merge upgrade activates in two phases as stated previously; first Bellatrix, at an epoch height on the Beacon Chain, and the second, Paris, upon hitting a Total Difficulty value on the execution layer.
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