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- Prysmatic Labs is back after taking a year-long "don't use Prysm" campaign ~ Vitalik Buterin
- Bopsten - Ropsten on Beacon Chain launched
- Game Stop released its Ethereum wallet with Loopring's Support
- Etherscan has released Testnet Explorer for Sepolia
- Lido Finance contributed 2M LDO to Protocol Guild Pilots
- Ethereum Staking CLR round by EthStakers
- Anyone can contribute in #TestingTheMerge efforts to help Nethermind and Ethereum
Prysmatic Labs is back after taking a year-long "don't use Prysm" campaign ~ Vitalik Buterin
Prysmatic labs is the Ethereum core development team working on the upcoming Proof of Stake consensys protocol and sharding .
The @prylabs team honestly deserves a lot of praise for taking a year-long "don't use Prysm" campaign on the chin and not opposing or getting publicly upset by it.
β vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 18, 2022
Anyway, that battle is basically won now; time to switch focus to getting more diversity in execution clients. pic.twitter.com/djo8f9awz9
Bopsten - Ropsten on Beacon Chain launched
Bopsten is a semi-major version release candidate as we move into upgrading the long-standing public testnets for the Merge. To handle the merge (a shift from Proof of Work mechanism to Proof of Stake consensus mechanism after reaching TTD) of the Ropsten chain, Ethereum developers launched a Ropsten Beacon Chain (RBC) aka Bopsten.Ropsten-beacon-chain's initial specs has been merged!
Expect client releases soon. Ropsten Merge transition date is expected to be June 8.
Ropsten-beacon-chain config has been merged!
β terence.eth (@terencechain) May 18, 2022
Expect client releases π
Genesis: May 30, 3:00:00 PM (GMT)
Merge transition: ~ June 8 pic.twitter.com/D23oH0K5sH
Game Stop released its Ethereum wallet with Loopring's Support
Game stop is established on Ethereum Blockchain which is Layer 1 and it also supports Loopring which is layer 2 , it has now launched its Ethereum wallet which can be used to store, send and use ETH, NFTs and ERC 20 tokens .
Itβs official! The GameStop Wallet is here.
β GameStop (@GameStop) May 23, 2022
Download: https://t.co/GkxiRaYN7W
Follow: @GameStopNFT
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Etherscan has released Testnet Explorer for Sepolia
Sepolia Testnet will be running through the Merge and is replacing Rinkeby Testnet. Etherscan has released the sepolia explorer which just like other explorers comes with features like-
- Verify contract tool β
- Read/write contract tab π
- API endpoints π―
Say hello to our Sepolia explorer π pic.twitter.com/3AhufW7mDb
β Etherscan (@etherscan) May 17, 2022
Lido Finance contributed 2M LDO to Protocol Guild Pilots
With this 2mm LDO contribution from @LidoFinance, we can consider the PG Pilot "officially" kicked off π thank you!
β stateful.eth π¦π (@StatefulWorks) May 20, 2022
We've worked w/ the awesome team at @0xSplits to get this off the ground - it wouldn't have been possible without them!! π
Learn more: https://t.co/W5gR2hI420 pic.twitter.com/MlHgt0350m
Ethereum Staking CLR round by EthStakers
It's a quadratic funding round with fifteen projects and a matching pool of over 350k DAI. All these projects are aimed at making the experience of using Ethereum less cumbersome and smooth.There have been almost 2000 contributors already so it's high time to support your favorite projects.
There is still 1 Day left so hurry up and get involved.
Anyone can contribute in #TestingTheMerge efforts to help Nethermind and Ethereum
There are a few things you can do -
- Try Nethermind with different CLs like Sigma Prime, ChainSafe Systems, Teku Consensys
- Experiment with different Nethermind configs:
--config kiln (archive sync)
--config kiln_fastsync (fast_sync)
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