The Merge, Ethereum upgrade

Ethereum Mainnet will merge with the Beacon Chain proof-of-stake system. The Merge consists of a sequence of two upgrades – Bellatrix on the Consensus Layer followed by Paris on the Execution Layer.

• Block: 58750000000000000000000, aprox 15 September 2022

• https://bordel.wtf/
• https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/

Upgrade

• Ethereum Cancun-Deneb, 2024
• Ethereum Shanghai upgrade (Apr 2023)
• The Merge (Sep 2022)
• Ethereum Paris upgrade (2022)

Activities

• Read https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/
• Read https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/blob/stable/book/src/merge-migration.md#connecting-to-an-execution-engine

Related

• Ethereum Shanghai upgrade
• Bellatrix Beacon Chain
• Gray Glacier Upgrade Announcement
• Lighthouse: INFO Ready for the merge
• Sharding
• Execution layer: Ethereum execution clients
• Consensus layer: Consensus execution clients
• Ethereum scaling solutions

See also

• Beacon Chain, Ropsten Beacon Chain, Bellatrix beacon chain, The Merge, BeaconChainRpcEndpoints, lighthouse beacon_node, 5052
• Ethereum upgrades: The Merge, Bellatrix Beacon Chain, Paris upgrade, Shanghai upgrade, Ethereum Cancun-Deneb, Ethereum scaling solutions, Pectra

https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/08/12/finalized-no-36/