$64,581.00
1.44%$3,091.46
0.90%$6.82
1.33%$559.95
1.69%$146.72
5.43%$1.001
0.03%$3,087.53
0.81%$0.501856
0.24%$6.43
3.42%$0.15284
1.70%$0.473596
3.97%$0.00002295
1.06%$35.40
1.40%$64,559.00
1.26%$0.110336
1.18%$479.05
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3.84%$0.684835
0.08%$13.58
8.06%$81.69
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5.39%$5.83
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0.29%$26.27
0.63%$1.15
0.86%$2.49
1.70%$1.001
0.10%$6.22
3.84%$0.12413
0.67%$54.35
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2.72%$8.32
1.22%$8.18
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0.91%$470.83
0.67%$3.03
18.96%$1.14
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3.85%$0.083929
3.15%$0.04079351
3.22%$2,979.50
-5.96%$0.115371
-3.57%$28.39
-0.05%$0.260953
3.60%$2.30
2.99%$1.002
0.09%$3,200.59
0.86%$2.16
6.59%$0.00000523
2.52%$119.78
2.88%$2.09
1.05%$11.53
15.65%$0.710042
3.20%$2.02
1.05%$5.34
12.47%$27.17
9.95%$3,410.86
0.86%$1.23
-2.19%$1.96
-5.99%$0.0449791
3.01%$1.32
6.54%$0.569826
9.30%$107.37
0.74%$3,176.57
1.02%$1.073
7.03%$0.02735017
1.39%$0.177918
2.27%$1.013
10.34%$9.61
2.38%$0.00014209
2.51%$0.893786
2.15%$66.61
-0.59%$18.26
1.11%$87.13
1.75%$0.03215904
-1.49%$0.00000126
-0.34%$3,072.50
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3.48%$14.28
3.02%$0.880041
4.61%$0.771353
-4.36%$41.23
1.28%$0.6132
3.60%$1.045
-9.28%$0.00005147
0.97%$0.449768
2.20%$3.20
2.70%$7.04
-0.62%$0.00001514
3.86%$0.994503
2.29%$2.97
3.92%$0.109215
0.75%$5.00
2.17%$44.57
2.58%$0.61976
3.03%$0.235853
0.08%$4.00
0.13%$16.26
1.93%$1.26
0.76%$0.0187382
1.22%$6.78
1.93%$348.33
2.75%$0.786229
4.61%$173.53
5.08%$0.02026595
0.03%$0.814049
2.67%$8.80
4.70%$0.441092
1.30%$1.24
0.50%$1.20
0.59%$3,110.07
0.57%$12.98
5.74%$0.22987
3.10%$0.680318
2.15%$19.40
-0.41%$2.31
3.41%$0.97943
0.09%$2.81
1.84%$1.70
-2.10%$0.640046
-1.58%$1.23
-0.44%$0.188575
2.32%$3,080.75
1.06%$0.101039
8.01%$172.16
4.79%$4.07
10.84%$3,243.04
0.71%$3.99
-4.34%$0.999507
0.12%$35.58
-0.62%$0.401781
3.17%$0.944821
2.82%$0.00180261
4.99%$96.39
5.57%$0.106315
6.75%$0.00010248
1.61%$0.00000028
4.86%$2,393.37
0.37%$0.716837
3.07%$3,289.37
0.89%$5.90
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2.65%$0.01017856
9.05%$0.053796
1.58%$0.300344
4.53%$0.03998164
4.83%$1.78
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2.04%$0.77274
18.48%$0.06258
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0.36%$0.441887
1.68%$0.055242
3.54%$1.46
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0.02%$0.00570563
9.23%$3,342.81
0.86%$0.426592
6.28%$0.095087
0.13%$0.390053
2.59%$0.337184
3.46%$0.459443
4.70%$61.66
11.09%$1.044
6.19%$0.04701614
4.69%$1.12
4.83%$1.87
2.54%$0.241624
1.94%$0.02522037
4.22%$0.534063
7.32%$0.00000046
0.79%$22.00
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0.13%$0.02657604
2.56%$14.00
3.49%$0.03137329
5.95%$0.807422
-0.34%$4.08
0.97%$3.64
19.65%$3.97
4.96%$1.62
6.13%$0.617816
1.71%$3.69
2.78%$13.12
10.26%$0.03337653
19.44%$0.00234382
4.10%$0.00741094
1.43%$1,296.77
1.34%$0.567405
1.47%$0.00711959
1.13%$3.82
10.03%$5.05
3.51%$4.34
27.55%$0.523997
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3.75%$3,165.54
1.03%$0.252275
3.49%$0.375625
2.21%$0.922878
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6.62%$0.03093372
0.36%$0.733747
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4.22%$0.03762256
4.36%$3.51
4.03%$22.49
3.13%$4.03
13.11%$62.10
0.91%$0.03439929
2.78%$0.428402
5.94%$0.763696
4.77%$0.363759
9.76%$8.18
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2.19%$0.929329
1.67%$0.115556
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1.48%$0.00601846
5.40%$1.24
0.89%$0.03285348
1.83%$31.71
1.49%$26.14
7.33%$0.274433
-0.08%$0.875901
6.22%$2.40
4.91%$28.93
0.63%$0.316577
3.92%$0.00358508
5.80%$38.16
5.86%$40.18
1.09%$0.736919
-7.07%$3.71
1.99%$0.00000035
3.45%$0.159332
1.43%$25.21
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-1.88%$0.314625
2.72%$0.391004
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4.27%$0.81539
3.59%$0.02060079
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Ropsten will be Ethereum’s first public test network to transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism as part of the blockchain’s “Merge” event, expected August this year.
Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko shared the news on Twitter last night: “Ethereum's longest-lived PoW testnet is moving to Proof of Stake! A new beacon chain has been launched today, and The Merge is expected around June 8th on the network.”
Beiko called the news a “first dress rehearsal” for miners.
📣 Ropsten Merge Announcement 📣
Ethereum's longest lived PoW testnet is moving to Proof of Stake! A new beacon chain has been launched today, and The Merge is expected around June 8th on the network.
Node Operators: this is the first dress rehearsal💃https://t.co/0fDHObLOmn
— Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth 🐼 (@TimBeiko) May 30, 2022
Beiko then fired off a nine-tweet thread covering the technical details of the Merge for miners. He informed developers that “basically nothing should change” post-Merge.
Ropsten’s newly-launched beacon chain will undergo a “Bellatrix” upgrade to be Merge-compatible around June 2. A few days after this, a value known as the Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) will be chosen by miners to trigger the transition. Miners will then need to configure their nodes with this value.
According to a blog post by Ethereum: “After the Ropsten transition, two more testnets (Goerli and Sepolia) will be transitioned to proof-of-stake before focus shifts to mainnet.”
The Ethereum Foundation also upped its bug bounty payouts recently to help facilitate a problem-free transition.
Launched in 2016, Ropsten is Ethereum’s longest-running PoW test network (testnet). Testnets are identical in every key aspect to the “mainnet,” and are used by developers to test smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps).
Ropsten uses a valueless form of Ethereum to execute transactions and test the coding environment. Changes made to the testnet do not affect Ethereum’s mainnet. This consequence-free environment gives developers key insights into any potential problems that might arise from their coding.
Formerly known as 2.0, Ethereum’s long-anticipated mega upgrade will transition the network from a consumptive PoW consensus algorithm à la Bitcoin – where transactions are validated by miners with a lot of computing power – to PoS, in which miners who put up the most collateral validate the most transactions.
Ethereum claims this will cut the blockchain’s energy consumption by up to 99.5%.
"The merge" refers to the point when Ethereum’s mainnet will converge with the PoS-based Beacon Chain. After that, Ethereum 2.0 (which was recently rebranded to the “Consensus Layer”) will be up and running.
