~20 days until Merge 🚀
tl;dr
Data Merge Challenge 🧪📊
In preparation for the upcoming merger, Data Merge Challenge It’s live!
The merge is the most complex upgrade to Ethereum to date, and potentially to any public blockchain network. always. And there’s plenty of data to collect, data to visualize, authoring tools, and things to explain to help researchers, developers, and community members better understand the interactions of the network after the merge.
To begin data exploration in this new paradigm, EF now and October 31, 2022. If you want to compare data before and after the merge, start early!
Find out all the details. here.
Merge is imminent. Upgrade your nodes 🖥️
Mainnet merge client release You are out. Now it’s time to configure the nodes.
If you are a staker and have never run an Execution Layer client before, you will need to give yourself sufficient lead time to configure your system and sync the mainnet (this may take a few days).
The consensus layer will be upgraded to Bellatrix on September 6, 2022, and the merge transition will occur between September 10 and 20, 2022.
Don’t fall behind. The Merge is Coming 🚀