Ethereum Bulletin #71

Few blocks for The Merge, The Merge Contributor design contest is over, Prysmatic Labs v3.1.1 out, Testnet and Mainnet guide for The Lodestar Consensus Client, Cloudfare Ethereum gateways now support the Görli and Sepolia testnets.

Ethereum Bulletin #71

TL;DR

Few blocks for The Merge!

MariusVanDerWijden in one of his recent tweets mentioned the number of blocks until TheMerge. He said "Less than 10k blocks to go until #TheMerge
We've just set up the last remaining internal monitoring tools (since we expect the public explorers to be hit pretty hard by users)."

The Merge Contributor design contest is over!

The Merge COntributor design contest is over. Now you can vote here

Eligibility:

Voting closes Sep 15 at 2 pm ET!

Prysmatic Labs v3.1.1 out!

Prysmatic Labs have finally released their v3.1.1. It contains a fork choice bug fix which could lead to a memory leak and a gossipsub optimization. It's highly recommended you upgrade to this before the merge:
This is another highly recommended release. It contains a fork choice pruning fix and a gossipsub optimization. It is recommended to upgrade to this release before the Merge next week, which is currently tracking for Wed Sept 14 (https://bordel.wtf/).

Fixes:

  • Memory leaks in fork choice store which leads to node becoming slower.
  • Improve connectivity and solves issues connecting with peers.

Testnet and Mainnet guide for The Lodestar Consensus Client.

SomerEsat have finally released Testnet and Mainnet guide for The Lodestar Consensus Client here.

Cloudfare Ethereum gateways now support the Görli and Sepolia testnets.

Cloudflare announces support for the Ethereum Merge on the Ethereum network and also announces that their Ethereum gateways now support the Görli and Sepolia test networks (testnets).

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