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Kintsugi🍵 in progress
In early November, Kintsugi🍵’s month-long Merge sprint has begun! long writing Specification and Milestones/Plans It has been launched and the client team is now deeply engaged in sprints with the goal of an ongoing testnet launch in the first week of December.
The Kintsugi specification incorporates all lessons learned and minor tweaks. Amphora Interoperability. The Kintsugi November Sprint is an effort to (1) integrate new change sets and (2) improve and bring into production the Merge implementation. Kintsugi will run through the December holidays and culminate in an ongoing multi-client testnet launch that will serve as the basis for the merge plan established in January.
The client team is currently working through milestones that include building features, running tests, and experimenting with initial interoperability with other clients. Additionally, Merge devnet will be released weekly this month. go-devnet-0 It’s up to date.
If you are interested in testing the Merge software, please keep an eye on our client releases and testnet guidance. We hope that many people in the community will participate in the Kintsugi testnet, which was launched in the first week of December.
After this testnet launch, the relevant EIPs and specifications will be last call The final state that teams and individuals see before making changes to a change set. Frozen. Afterwards, the public Proof-of-Work and faction testnets will undergo a merge transition in the new year as our team finalizes testing and prepares for mainnet launch.
Upgrade to Arrow Glacier
but Confirmed It mainly deals with the consensus layer of Ethereum. Future (minor) upgrades to the current proof-of-work chain are important for users running validators. On approximately December 8, 2021, Arrow Glacier will defuse its difficulty bomb, pushing it back several months. reference Arrow Glacier Announcement Learn more about upgrades and related client releases.
When I run the validator I get Please upgrade your “eth1 endpoint” (PoW node) before Wednesday, December 5, 2021. Consider variable block times. This is aiming to be the last difficulty bomb before the merge 🚀