Ethereum's Shadow Fork Test Successful Ahead of Proof of Stake Upgrade (The Merge).
14 Apr 2022, 08:00
Ethereum’s Shadow Fork Test Successful Ahead of Proof of Stake Upgrade (The Merge)
Core Ethereum engineers deployed a crucial Merge test on Monday ahead of the much-anticipated switch to a proof-of-stake blockchain network. According to a Github post published by Tim Beiko, an Ethereum developer, the event happened on a so-called shadow fork mainnet.
As the transition to a PoS consensus mechanism represents a massive overhaul of the Ethereum network, developers have spent months picking out the bugs and finetuning the process.