On June 24, the London upgrade will be activated on the Ropsten testnet, June 30 — on Goerli, July 7 — on Rinkeby, and after that, if there are no outages, after 300,000–400,000 blocks — on the Ethereum mainnet. These guidelines were shared by developer Tim Beiko.
And here it is, at 1127 words: AllCoreDevs Update 004https://t.co/d4EDlDRulZ 😄
Things you should know about London activation + 1559 support 🔥, the current state of The Merge ⛓️ and eth specifications ✍️, and updates on two Shanghai candidates: EIP-3074 & 3540 🇨🇳 https://t.co/bhkBKUsJR0
— Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth 🦇🔊 (@TimBeiko) June 22, 2021
The specialist urged interested parties to familiarise themselves with the specifications and update the nodes in the testnets. During testing, developers will assess the networks’ resilience to outages under conditions of heightened on-chain activity.
In addition to updates on the details of the planned London hard fork, Beiko said work is underway on code to merge ETH1 and ETH2 on the latter’s side. He promised that specifications for the first version of the protocol would appear soon.
Beiko also reported on work related to EIP-3074 (an audit was conducted) and EIP-3540 (a roadmap has been developed). These proposals are candidates for activation as part of the next Shanghai hard fork.
Earlier, developers identified a vulnerability in the EIP-1559 proposal, which could have led to network congestion.
The controversial EIP-1559 won backing from developers and users, but divided miners into two camps.
Opponents of the proposal, including jointly контролирующие 44.8% of the network’s hash rate, the SparkPool and Ethermine pools, aimed to concentrate in the latter more than 51% of the computing power. However their attempt failed.
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