The Ethereum community will probably be present process a scheduled community improve at block 15,050,000, which is anticipated to happen on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. The precise date is topic to vary resulting from variable block instances and time zones. Please improve your node earlier than Monday, June 27, 2022 to account for variable block instances.
What’s Gray Glacier?
The Gray Glacier community improve adjustments the parameters of the Ice Age/Problem Bomb, pushing it again by 700,000 blocks, or roughly 100 days. This has additionally been executed within the Byzantium, Constantinople, Muir Glacier, London and Arrow Glacier community upgrades. No different adjustments are launched as a part of Gray Glacier.
With Ropsten now transitioned to proof-of-stake, the problem bomb solely impacts the Ethereum mainnet. This implies Gray Glacier won’t be deployed on any testnet.
Consumer Variations
To be able to be suitable with the Gray Glacier improve, node operators might want to replace the shopper model that they run to one of many ones listed beneath:
Upgrade Specification and EIPs
The total specification for the improve could be discovered within the execution-specs repository beneath gray-glacier.md.
A single EIP is included within the improve: EIP-5133: Delaying Difficulty Bomb to Mid September 2022.
As an Ethereum person or ether holder is there something I have to do?
In the event you use an trade, an online pockets service, a cellular pockets service, or a {hardware} pockets you do not want to do something until you might be knowledgeable to take further steps by your trade or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I have to do?
Obtain the newest model of your Ethereum shopper, as listed within the desk above.
What occurs if I’m a miner or node operator and I don’t take part within the improve?
If you’re utilizing an Ethereum shopper that isn’t up to date to the newest model (listed above), your shopper will sync to the pre-fork blockchain as soon as the improve happens. You’ll be caught on an incompatible chain following the previous guidelines and you can be unable to ship Ether or function on the post-upgrade Ethereum community.
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 blockchain techniques makes a community improve tougher. Community upgrades in a blockchain require cooperation and communication with the group, in addition to with the builders of the assorted Ethereum purchasers to ensure that the transition to go easily.
What occurs throughout a community improve?
After the group involves an settlement regarding which adjustments must be included within the improve, adjustments to the protocol are written into the assorted Ethereum purchasers, resembling Besu, Erigon, go-ethereum and Nethermind. The protocol adjustments are activated at a selected block quantity. Any nodes that haven’t been upgraded to the brand new rule set will probably be deserted on the previous chain the place the earlier guidelines live on.
Why “Gray Glacier”?
Whereas we typically use Ethereum convention metropolis names for execution layer community upgrades, upgrades that solely delay the problem bomb/ice age use glacier names as a substitute.
Gray Glacier was chosen as a result of it actually merges into one other glacier, identical to how Ethereum’s execution layer will quickly be merged with the Beacon Chain!
Thanks to Matt Palmer for the unique cowl picture and Tomo Saito for the modifications.
