The highly anticipated ethereum Shanghai upgrade is scheduled for activation today, April 12th, following a swift consensus reached during the 157th AllCoreDevs Execution Layer meeting. What are the execution changes brought by Shanghai? This move comes after a smooth Goerli… origin »
The Ethereum community may have to wait longer for the Shanghai upgrade after the core developers’ bi-weekly meeting, Execution Layer Meeting 156, ended with a decision to have the hard fork run on the Goerli test network by March 14 and the final deployment somewhere in April.
While technically the Shanghai Upgrade is only on the execution side, Capella is the simultaneous upgrade happening on the consensus side. Hence the merging of the two names to “Shapella”.
During the recent All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call on February2, chaired by Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation, contributors discussed the timeline for the public testnet launch of the Shaingahi upgrade, which will bring with it the ability to unstake ETH from the Beacon chain.