Ethereum takes step closer to Shanghai-Capella with deployment on Sepolia testnet
Ethereum developers have successfully launched the Shanghai-Capella upgrade on the Sepolia testnet, marking another step towards its mainnet release next month.At around 4:04 a.m. UTC, Ethereum core developers triggered the upgrade at epoch 56832, which took approximately 13 minutes to finalize.
The Sepolia test network is one of three testnets on which the Shanghai-Capella upgrade, also called Shapella, is being tested. Its deployment is seen as a milestone towards the upgrade's full launch on the mainnet in March. With today's launch, developers have successfully replicated the main feature of the Shapella upgrade — which is named Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 4895 — on Sepolia. This proposal aims to enable validator staking withdrawals on the network. During Ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake consensus in September 2022, also known as The Merge.
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