Altair is here; the Merge is coming.

tl;dr

Altair upgrade, Oct 27

Altair, the archetypal mainnet upgrade to the Beacon Chain, has been scheduled for epoch 74240 (Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC).

A subtle but large vantage of proof-of-stake is that we tin precisely clip upgrades (Sorry Tim! We’ll beryllium done with proof-of-work soon 😉)

This upgrade brings light-client enactment to the halfway consensus, cleans up beacon authorities inducement accounting, fixes immoderate issues with validator incentives, and steps up the punitive params as per EIP-2982.

Huge shout-out to lawsuit teams for their enactment connected this passim the twelvemonth 🙌

Keep your eyes peeled for different blogpost connected Monday, October 4th. This volition see each mainnet Altair releases.

And past you tin upgrade your nodes!

Merge interop specs and coming devnets

The Merge Interop spec was released connected Friday. This “meta-spec” provides unchangeable targets for engineers for an archetypal question of investigating and devnets.

After a flurry of specification enactment implicit the past fewer months, Merge specs are adjacent diagnostic complete, and the halfway logic is stable. In this adjacent phase, engineers volition physique retired the Merge logic and trial their bundle with different teams connected short-lived devnets. The engineers volition vet the specs arsenic they basal contiguous and supply dynamic feedback into the specs to refine and/or hole issues arsenic they arise.

At the apical of the database is to validate and refine the Merge motor API and to prototype and specify assorted versions of sync nether the Merge paradigm.

Proof-of-stake superceding proof-of-work is years successful the making, and we’re conscionable arsenic excited arsenic you to spot it successful action. Much amusive coming successful October 🏺🚀