Ethereum The penultimate testnet merger has been successfully completed before the long-awaited transition of blockchain from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-stake.
Sepolia was the second of three open testnets to be merged. After that, Goerli is also expected to merge.
Ethereum Sepolia Testnet Successfully Migrated to Proof of Stake System
The Sepolia network switched to the Proof of Stake mechanism after its Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) value exceeded 17,000,000,000,000,000.
No notable glitches were reported after the testnet defragmentation process.
The Sepolia unification took place as a two-stage process. Ethereum first announced that operators must update their consensus layer and execution layer clients together. This then enabled two phases. One of the two stages was performed at an epoch level in the Beacon chain and the second at the execution layer when the total difficulty was reached.
With this testnet merge, the Ethereum project is one step closer to the mainnet update that will take place later this year. Ropsten, the network’s first testnet merger, was completed on June 8.
With the transition to the Proof of Stake mechanism, the function of miners on the ETH network will de facto cease. However, new ETH mining devices continue to be released. After the transition to the Proof of Stake mechanism, other ETH-connected devices will continue in the Proof of Work mechanism of these devices. cryptocurrencies is thought to be used for
With the transition of the ETH network to the PoS system, the energy requirement is expected to decrease considerably.
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