The Ethereum community might be present process a scheduled community improve at block 15,050,000, which is anticipated to happen on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. The precise date is topic to alter because of variable block occasions and time zones. Please improve your node earlier than Monday, June 27, 2022 to account for variable block occasions.
What’s Grey Glacier?
The Grey Glacier community improve modifications the parameters of the Ice Age/Problem Bomb, pushing it again by 700,000 blocks, or roughly 100 days. This has additionally been accomplished within the Byzantium, Constantinople, Muir Glacier, London and Arrow Glacier community upgrades. No different modifications are launched as a part of Grey Glacier.
With Ropsten now transitioned to proof-of-stake, the issue bomb solely impacts the Ethereum mainnet. This implies Grey Glacier is not going to be deployed on any testnet.
Shopper Variations
So as to be suitable with the Grey Glacier improve, node operators might want to replace the consumer model that they run to one of many ones listed beneath:
Improve Specification and EIPs
The total specification for the improve may be discovered within the execution-specs repository below gray-glacier.md.
A single EIP is included within the improve: EIP-5133: Delaying Difficulty Bomb to Mid September 2022.
As an Ethereum consumer or ether holder is there something I have to do?
If you happen to use an change, an online pockets service, a cellular pockets service, or a {hardware} pockets you do not want to do something except you’re knowledgeable to take further steps by your change or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I have to do?
Obtain the newest model of your Ethereum consumer, as listed within the desk above.
What occurs if I’m a miner or node operator and I don’t take part within the improve?
In case you are utilizing an Ethereum consumer that’s not up to date to the newest model (listed above), your consumer will sync to the pre-fork blockchain as soon as the improve happens. You may be caught on an incompatible chain following the previous guidelines and you may be unable to ship Ether or function on the post-upgrade Ethereum community.
What’s a community improve in Ethereum-land?
A community improve is a change to the underlying Ethereum protocol, creating new guidelines to enhance the system. The decentralized nature of blockchain methods makes a community improve tougher. Community upgrades in a blockchain require cooperation and communication with the group, in addition to with the builders of the assorted Ethereum shoppers to ensure that the transition to go easily.
What occurs throughout a community improve?
After the group involves an settlement regarding which modifications ought to be included within the improve, modifications to the protocol are written into the assorted Ethereum shoppers, resembling Besu, Erigon, go-ethereum and Nethermind. The protocol modifications are activated at a selected block quantity. Any nodes that haven’t been upgraded to the brand new rule set might be deserted on the previous chain the place the earlier guidelines live on.
Why “Grey Glacier”?
Whereas we usually use Ethereum convention metropolis names for execution layer community upgrades, upgrades that solely delay the issue bomb/ice age use glacier names as a substitute.
Gray Glacier was chosen as a result of it actually merges into one other glacier, identical to how Ethereum’s execution layer will quickly be merged with the Beacon Chain!
Thanks to Matt Palmer for the unique cowl picture and Tomo Saito for the modifications.