The Ethereum community will bear a deliberate community improve within the block 15,050,000what is anticipated on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. The precise date is topic to alter on account of altering block instances and time zones. Improve your node earlier than Monday, June 27, 2022 to account for the altering block instances.
What’s Grey Glacier?
The Grey Glacier grid improve modifications the parameters of the Ice Age/Problem Bomb, pushing it again by 700,000 blocks, or roughly 100 days. That is additionally performed in Byzantine, Constantinople, Muir Glacier, London and Arrow Glacier community upgrades. No different modifications have been launched as a part of Grey Glacier.
WITH Ropsten has now moved to proof-of-stake, the problem bomb solely impacts the Ethereum mainnet. Which means Grey Glacier won’t be deployed on any check community.
Consumer variations
To be appropriate with the Grey Glacier improve, node operators might want to replace the consumer model they’re working to one of many following:
Improve specification and EIPs
The total specification for the improve might be discovered within the efficiency specs repository beneath siv-glačer.md.
One EIP is included within the improve: EIP-5133: Heavy bomb delay till mid-September 2022.
As an Ethereum consumer or ether proprietor do I must do something?
Should you use an alternate, internet pockets service, cell pockets service, or {hardware} pockets, you don’t want to take any motion until your alternate or pockets service notifies you to take further steps.
As a node operator or miner, what ought to I do?
Obtain the most recent model of your Ethereum consumer, as indicated within the desk above.
What occurs if I’m a miner or node operator and don’t take part within the improve?
In case you are utilizing an Ethereum consumer that has not been up to date to the most recent model (listed above), your consumer will sync with the pre-fork blockchain as soon as the improve happens. You may be caught on an incompatible chain beneath the outdated guidelines and will be unable to ship Ether or work on the Ethereum community after the improve.
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 the blockchain system makes it troublesome to improve the community. Blockchain community upgrades require collaboration and communication with the neighborhood in addition to the builders of the varied Ethereum purchasers to make the transition easy.
What occurs throughout a community improve?
As soon as the neighborhood has reached settlement on which modifications to incorporate within the improve, the protocol modifications are written to varied Ethereum purchasers, corresponding to Besu, Erigon, go-ethereum, and Nethermind. Protocol modifications are activated on a particular block quantity. Any nodes that haven’t upgraded to the brand new ruleset shall be deserted within the outdated chain the place the earlier guidelines live on.
Why “Gray Glacier”?
Whereas we usually use Ethereum convention metropolis names for government layer community upgrades, upgrades that simply delay the problem/ice age bomb use glacier names as a substitute.
Grey glacier he was chosen as a result of he’s actually connects into one other glacier, simply as Ethereum’s execution layer will quickly be merged with the Beacon Chain!
Thanks too Matt Palmer for the unique cowl picture and Tomo Saito for the edits.
