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The Bellatrix upgrade was activated astatine epoch 144896 connected the Beacon Chain and is present live.
The Paris upgrade is next, and erstwhile activated, it volition implicit the Ethereum network’s modulation to the proof-of-stake system.
Earlier successful the day, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced connected Twitter that the Merge volition beryllium triggered betwixt Sept. 13 to Sept. 15.
The merge is inactive expected to hap astir Sep 13-15. What's happening contiguous is the Bellatrix hard fork, which *prepares* the concatenation for the merge. Still important though – marque definite to update your clients!
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 6, 2022
Each Ethereum node is tally connected 2 layers, the statement furniture (‘C layer’) and the proof-of-work (PoS) furniture — presently the main web — which communicates via an Application Programming Interface. When the 2 layers combine, the Ethereum web volition modulation to a PoS system.
The Merge is simply a two-phase event. The archetypal lawsuit is the Bellatrix web upgrade connected the statement furniture triggered by an epoch height.
Once the execution furniture reaches oregon exceeds, the circumstantial Total Difficulty threshold called TTD, the 2nd and last signifier of the Merge volition beryllium triggered successful what is called the “Paris event.”
The Paris Upgrade volition people the extremity of proof-of-work mining connected the Ethereum Blockchain and the palmy completion of the Merge.
However, lone 73% of Ethereum nodes person completed the mandated upgrade and are designated arsenic “Merge ready” astatine the clip of writing, based connected information from Ethernodes.
Meanwhile, 27.4% of node operators are flagged arsenic “not ready” astatine property time, meaning they person little than a time to update their nodes. Ethereum developer Tim Beiko took to Twitter to propulsion node operators to update their statement furniture clients up of the Bellatrix upgrade:
Bellatrix is time 
Last accidental to upgrade your node if you haven’t yet!
We’re mergiiiing 
https://t.co/0VQ9zb6wjN
— Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth (@TimBeiko) September 5, 2022
The Ethereum Foundation besides cautioned node operators that if they don’t upgrade their nodes earlier the Bellatrix hard fork, it volition origin their Ethereum clients to “sync to the pre-fork blockchain,” warning:
“[Node operators] volition beryllium stuck connected an incompatible concatenation pursuing aged rules and volition beryllium incapable to nonstop Ether oregon run connected the post-Merge Ethereum network.”
Holders of ETH bash not request to bash thing with their funds oregon wallet, arsenic the genesis volition stay intact and unchanged aft the Merge. Holders volition person nary occupation accessing their funds.
However, the Ethereum Foundation warned that users should beryllium wary of scams that whitethorn effort to instrumentality vantage of holders during the upgrade. It instructed users against sending their ETH anyplace successful an effort to upgrade to ETH2 and that ETH tokens bash not exist.
What happens aft the Merge?
The Shanghai upgrade is scheduled to travel the Merge, enabling stakers to withdraw.
Plans for sharding volition besides beryllium underway to alteration the astir optimal solution to administer the work of storing compressed telephone information from rollup contracts, thereby allowing higher scalability and web capableness connected the Ethereum network.
The station Bellatrix upgrade goes live, sets signifier for Ethereum’s Merge appeared archetypal connected CryptoSlate.
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