Ethereum core developers push Shanghai upgrade to early April
The final dress rehearsal for Shanghai has been slated for a Mar. 14 launch, while the real thing will happen a few weeks later. Ethereum developers have pushed back the highly-anticipated Shanghai hard fork by approximately two weeks. Initially estimated for late March, the Shanghai upgrade will now likely be deployed sometime within the first two weeks of April. The delay was announced at an Ethereum developer meeting on Mar. 2. During the meeting, core developers came to the consensus that the hard fork would occur about a fortnight after the Goerli testnet launch, which has been slated for Mar. 14. The Goerli testnet will be the final dress rehearsal for the Shanghai hard fork before it is rolled out on the mainnet. So looks like Goerli testnet is getting upgraded to Shapella Epoch: 162304 Time: 3/14/2023, 10:25:36 PM UTC See ya on the other side! — terence.eth (@terencechain) March 2, 2023 Ethereum core developer and project coordinator, Tim Beiko, said “for mainnet we us...