Mid-September Merge For Ethereum Still On Track – The Defiant

Ethereum developers doubled their mid-September target for the merger during a conference call Thursday.

Merge is Ethereum’s highly anticipated transition from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. It is expected to reduce the blockchain’s energy consumption and therefore carbon emissions by up to 99%, addressing one of the primary criticisms of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

September 19

While discussing a series of steps that must be taken before the merger, the Ethereum Foundation’s Tim Beiko, who organizes the network’s core developer meetings, suggested a target date of September 19. No objection was raised to the proposed timeline

According to a prominent Ethereum developer, the date is meant to be a roadmap rather than a hard deadline.

“This merge timeline isn’t final, but it’s very exciting to see it come together,” superphiz.eth Tweeted Thursday “Please consider this a planning timeline and watch for official announcements!”

Observers have been anticipating a mid-September merger for weeks. But Thursday’s discussion marked the latest attempt to set a realistic timeline for the often-delayed upgrade.

The difficulty is delaying the bomb

Last month, developers decided to delay Ethereum’s “hard bomb” in an acknowledgment that the merger wouldn’t happen before mid-September. A difficulty bomb is an update built into the protocol that will significantly increase the complexity of PoW calculations, and therefore, the time required to process transactions – a type of self-destructing mechanism to encourage the transition to proof-of-stake.

During a debate about delaying the difficulty bomb, some developers advised the team to publicly commit to a hard deadline, arguing that there was a lack of urgency to abandon the energy-intensive proof-of-work model.

“There is a very real cost associated with not integrating: 130,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per day,” said developer Ben Edgington. “That’s about a million tonnes a week. Every week we twiddle our thumbs, that’s a megaton of carbon dioxide we’re emitting.”

At the time, Beiko objected to the idea that developers don’t feel pressured to complete integrations.

“It is remarkable [that] On the last call, and to me personally, client teams mentioned that they feel quite pressured and urgent,” he said. “Too much pressure pushes teams to burn out or make bad decisions, and we don’t want to be in that situation.”

Following the successful merger of the Ropsten and Cepolia testnets, the transition to the proof-of-stake Gowerly testnet is planned for August 11. This will mark the final step before upgrading to Ethereum’s mainnet.

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