{"id":75702,"date":"2023-03-16T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75702"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:08:46","slug":"ethereum-developers-plan-shapella-hard-fork-on-april-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-developers-plan-shapella-hard-fork-on-april-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum developers plan Shapella hard fork on April 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViLwzeIuJUc&#038;ab_channel=Ethereum\">has determined<\/a> the date for the Shanghai-Capella (Shapella) hard fork on the mainnet. The long-awaited update is scheduled for April 12 (epoch 194 048).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The upgrade envisages the implementation of <a href=\"https:\/\/eips.ethereum.org\/EIPS\/eip-4895\">EIP-4895<\/a> \u2014 an improvement proposal for the mainnet that would allow users to withdraw funds from staking.<\/p>\n<p>Several updates are also planned, aimed at optimising gas costs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on March 15, the Ethereum team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-developers-activate-shapella-hard-fork-on-goerli-testnet\">conducted<\/a> the Shapella hard fork on the Goerli testnet.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-team-carries-out-shapella-hard-fork-on-sepolia-testnet\">activated<\/a> this upgrade on the Sepolia testnet. The hard fork includes changes to Ethereum&#8217;s consensus and execution layers. Its primary aim is to enable withdrawals of ETH from staking.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum team has settled on the date for the Shanghai-Capella hard fork on the mainnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75703,"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-75702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75702","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=75702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75704,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75702\/revisions\/75704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}