yesterday, 10th shadow fork It occurred normally on the Ethereum mainnet.
Mainnet Shadow Fork 10 seems to have worked very well!
Marge is coming 🐼 pic.twitter.com/myiGBwoRXE
—Sassal.eth 🦇🔊🐼 (@ sassal0x) July 28, 2022
The fork occurred 26 hours early at 11:45 am (UTC). Block 15217902..
Why are these shadow forks so important to the Ethereum blockchain?
These shadow forks Testing the transition to Proof of Stake.. These are test forks, called shadow forks, that copy data from the mainnet to the testnet. Therefore, they are irrelevant to Ethereum users, merge..
The next important step in reaching a merge that replaces PoW with PoS is a test merge on the Goerli testnet scheduled for August 10.
Yesterday’s shadow fork number 10 is exactly A test version similar to the one used during the Goerli test merge.
The final test net merge, Goerli, has been released!
Make sure the node is up-to-date and properly configured.
Here are some configuration tips and common pitfalls: https://t.co/jkjF5FDJ4r#TestingTheMerge https://t.co/U3VFeWwJBA
— Paris Tosh | 🐼👉👈🐼 (@parithosh_j) July 27, 2022
Also, this is not the last shadow fork of the Ethereum mainnet, as much more will happen until the actual merge.
There is no serious problem Discovered after the shadow fork occurred.
Shadow forks are primarily for testing small changes that will be useful after the final merge. Therefore, it does not affect the use of Ethereum by normal users.
recently, Ethereum mining Due to the slight increase in hash rate, the block time has been reduced, which is lower than the traditional 15 seconds.This is why the 10th shadow fork happened 26 hours earlier than expected..
The merge remains scheduled for September
So far, all the final steps leading up to the merge seem to be done quickly and successfully. For this reason, it seems likely that the merge will actually occur. In SeptemberAs many now predict.
In theory, there could still be unexpected issues that could slow down the process even further, but after months of work, this seems unlikely to happen.
However, it is important to remember that merging itself is a time consuming process. This means that not everything will be completed in minutes or seconds, but it will take weeks to complete the transition from proof of work to proof of stake. In that case, all Ethereum transactions occur in the new PoS-based beacon chain, Ethereum mining on the historic PoW-based blockchain stops slowly.
