- The Ethereum merge is expected in September, with the Bellatrix upgrade on 6 September and the Paris upgrade between 10-20 September.
- The merge is billed as a potential bullish trigger for the broader crypto market.
Ethereum’s long-awaited transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) via Merge is fast approaching.
On Wednesday, the Ethereum Developer Team announced Considering the importance of the merge to the world’s largest smart contract platform, September is indeed all set for the switch.
,Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake has been a long time coming. Thanks to everyone who contributed to research, specify, develop, analyze, test, break down, fix or explain everything that brings us to The Merge.The team wrote.
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As per the announcement, Ethereum has successfully handled the updates to all public testnets and all that is left is to activate the merge on the Beacon chain and then the Ethereum mainnet.
This will happen in two phases, including a Bellatrix and Paris upgrade, the first of which is expected to ship on September 6. The second upgrade, which will bring Ethereum fully to the PoS chain, will take place between September 10-20.
Paris upgrade will be triggered by terminal total difficultyWith the beacon chain validator building the first block.
,The merge transition is considered complete after the beacon chain has finalized this block. Under normal network conditions, this would be 2 epochs (or ~13 minutes) after the production of the first post-TTD blockThe team explained.
Ethereum developers previously indicated that the Paris upgrade to the PoS era would begin in mid-September, an announcement that may have contributed to the ETH price surge above $2,000.