Ethereum developers target March 2023 for Shanghai hard fork

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Users volition beryllium capable to withdrew their staked Ether and applicable rewards aft the upgrade goes live.

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According to a discussion astatine the 151st Ethereum Core Developers Meeting connected Dec. 8, halfway programmers acceptable a tentative deadline of March 2023 for the Shanghai hard fork. In addition, developers volition purpose for May oregon June 2023 to motorboat Ethereum Improvement Protocol (EIP) 4844 upgrade that volition present proto-danksharding to the network. 

Although the much-anticipated proof-of-stake Merge upgrade was completed connected Sept. 15, staked Ether (stETH), are presently locked connected the Ethereum Beacon Chain. The token is created by decentralized concern protocol Lido with adjacent to 3.5 cardinal stETH ($4.48 billion) successful circulation. After the Shanghai upgrade, stETH users tin retreat their funds on with immoderate applicable staking rewards for validating web transactions. The Ethereum Foundation said that it structured the upgrades successful this mode to "simplify and maximize absorption connected a palmy modulation to proof-of-stake."

After the hard fork, the EIP-4844 upgrade is designed to present a caller data-blob-transaction prototype antecedently invented by developers connected Feb. 21, 2022. Currently, layer-2 technologies specified arsenic optimism rollups tin determination Ethereum computation and web retention off-chain to amended scalability by 10x to 100x. Developers expect that by introducing ample portable bundles that tin incorporate cheaper information successful Ethereum transactions, it tin amended the capableness of rollups by up to 100x. However, portion the upgrade volition little the transaction fees connected layer-2 solutions, it volition not impact Ethereum state fees.

At @EthereumDenver we hacked unneurotic a afloat data-blob-transaction prototype! (a.k.a. mini-danksharding)

Data blobs are the archetypal milestone towards afloat ethereum sharding, enabling rollups similar @optimismPBC to turn 100x successful capacity.

Here's a tweet thread astir the prototype

— proto.eth (@protolambda) February 20, 2022

Last December, co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared that his endgame was for Ethereum to enactment arsenic a elemental base-layer portion users are "fully comfy storing their assets successful a ZK [zero-knowledge]-rollup moving a afloat EVM [Ethereum Virtual Machine]." Buterin besides warned that sharding and information availability sampling are "complex technologies" and would instrumentality years of audits and refinement to implement. 

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