{"id":61769,"date":"2022-05-20T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T11:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61769"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:06:24","slug":"ethereum-developers-set-timeline-for-transition-to-proof-of-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-developers-set-timeline-for-transition-to-proof-of-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum developers set timeline for transition to Proof-of-Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The planned Ethereum transition to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm will take place in August. This was announced by one of the leading developers Preston Van Loon at the Permissionless conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Ethereum core Dev <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/preston_vanloon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@preston_vanloon<\/a> just said the eth merge is ready,they are now only testing, and expects the merge to happen in August. Packed room <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Permissionless?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Permissionless<\/a> are excited about it. Great question <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrustlessState?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@TrustlessState<\/a>. Also on panel <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drakefjustin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@drakefjustin<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/vX4beNatJ5\\\">pic.twitter.com\/vX4beNatJ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benjamin Cohen (benjicohen.eth) (@benjicohen421) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benjicohen421\/status\/1527366876501684235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the team expects to finish the process, which they call \u201cThe Merge,\u201d before the activation of the \u201cdifficulty bomb,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>As far as we know, if everything goes according to plan, August simply makes sense. If we don\u2019t want to push back the difficulty bomb, then let\u2019s do it as soon as possible,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The automatic increase in the Ethereum blockchain&#8217;s block generation time <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereums-london-hard-fork-goes-live\">\u043e\u0442\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u044b\u0432\u0430\u043b\u043e\u0441\u044c<\/a> has been postponed several times. Now the \u201cdifficulty bomb\u201d should be activated in August. The software solution is designed to encourage the move to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/proof-of-stake-how-it-works-and-why-it-is-so-popular\">PoS<\/a>, making mining in the network on <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-proof-of-work-pow-algorithm\">Proof-of-Work<\/a> less profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Colleague developer Justin Drake confirmed that the team&#8217;s priority is to carry out The Merge before increasing mining difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, during the virtual summit <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8l67wJ3Wcbc\\\">Eth Shanghai<\/a> also said August was the most probable time for the transition. However, he allowed for moving the event to September-October in case of potential risks.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin noted that in early June developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-june-the-ethereum-team-will-migrate-the-ropsten-testnet-to-the-proof-of-stake-consensus-algorithm\">\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0442 \u043d\u0430 PoS \u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u0435\u0442 Ropsten<\/a>, and if successful, will make possible the merge on the mainnet.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the Ethereum team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-developers-carried-out-a-shadow-fork-of-the-mainnet\">\u0440\u0435\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430<\/a> a \u201cshadow hard fork\u201d of the mainnet to stress-test the transition to PoS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planned Ethereum transition to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm will take place in August, according to Preston Van Loon at the Permissionless conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-61769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61771,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61769\/revisions\/61771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}