Ethereum developer Tim Beiko has announced the release of the Kintsugi Merge Testnet to monitor possible situations prior to the Ethereum 2.0 merger.
Tim Beiko shared a post on Twitter on December 20. sharing with Kintsugi Merge Testnetannounced the. In the post that contains the blog post with detailed information;
The dev team has been working tirelessly for months to implement some milestone for the ETH 2.0 merger.
made statements.
Testnet before Ethereum merged with Beacon Chain “identifying and prototyping problems that may be encountered during the process” aims.
With the ETH 2.0 merger approaching Proof-of-Stake (PoS) It is known that the model is not fully ready. After the community experiences the merger of the PoW and PoS models, the blockchain will be able to fully transition to the PoS model. Ethereum’s PoS-based Beacon Chain smart contract has been active for over a year and users are already on ETH 2.0 locked millions of ethereum into the contract to be validator.
Thanks to the merger, upgrades to the Ethereum network June 2022as it is expected to occur before EIP-4345 “Difficulty Bomb”The date is scheduled for June 2022.
