Shanghai upgrade

Ethereum developers deploy Shanghai upgrade ‘shadow fork’

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Ethereum (ETH) core developers successfully launched the shadow fork for the Shanghai update on Jan. 23. Ethereum developer Marius Van Der Wijden said that the shadow fork started with a few issues because they didn’t correctly apply the configuration on Go Ethereum (GETH) — an Ethereum execution client. However, when the corrections were made, all … Read more

Ethereum sees an increase in these metrics as Shanghai Upgrade nears

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Ethereum validators hit over 500,000 as the network moved close to an upgrade. The total value of ETH staked also increased to over 16 million. As per a report published on 17 January by web3 platform Alchemy, the number of smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum [ETH] mainnet had increased by 293% in comparison to … Read more