Ethereum Merge testing on Kiln mostly successful, save for one minor bug

On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) developer Tim Beiko tweeted that Kiln successfully passed the Ethereum Merge, with validators producing post-merge blocks containing transactions. Kiln volition beryllium the past Merge testnet (formerly Ethereum 2.0) earlier existing nationalist testnets are upgraded. "Merge" involves taking Ethereum's Execution Layer from the existing Proof of Work furniture and merging it with the Consensus Layer from the Beacon chain, turning the blockchain into a proof-of-stake network. The Foundation writes: 

"This merge signals the culmination of six years of probe and improvement successful Ethereum and volition effect successful a much unafraid network, predictable artifact times, and a 99.98%+ simplification successful powerfulness usage erstwhile it is released connected mainnet aboriginal successful 2022."

However, it appears not everything went according to program during testing. According to Kiln Explorer, determination were respective errors relating to declaration creation. In a follow-up tweet, Beiko said a lawsuit was not producing blocks consistently, though "the web is stable, with >2/3rd of validators correctly finalizing." A chap Ethereum developer, Marius Van Der Wijden commented connected the substance arsenic well, pointing retired that Prysm was proposing atrocious blocks during the modulation connected Kiln. 

Prysm is simply a Go programming connection variant for implementing Ethereum Consensus specification. As told by Van Der Wijden, it turns retired 1 artifact had the incorrect basal interest per state value, and substituting it with the existent expected basal worth appears to person solved the problem. On its official roadmap, the Ethereum Foundation states that the Merge upgrade volition beryllium shipped by the extremity of Q2 2022. However, a fewer features, specified arsenic the quality to retreat staked ETH, volition not beryllium disposable instantly aft the Merge, arsenic developers ore their efforts connected the latter. 

— Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth (@TimBeiko) March 15, 2022