The Ethereum community might 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 alter 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 is Gray Glacier?
The Gray Glacier community improve modifications the parameters of the Ice Age/Difficulty Bomb, pushing it again by 700,000 blocks, or roughly 100 days. This has additionally been achieved within the Byzantium, Constantinople, Muir Glacier, London and Arrow Glacier community upgrades. No different modifications 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 means Gray Glacier won’t be deployed on any testnet.
Client Versions
In order to be appropriate 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 full specification for the improve might be discovered within the execution-specs repository underneath 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 must do?
If you utilize an alternate, an internet pockets service, a cell pockets service, or a {hardware} pockets you don’t want to do something until you might be knowledgeable to take further steps by your alternate or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I must do?
Download 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 might be 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 might 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 is 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 methods makes a community improve tougher. Network upgrades in a blockchain require cooperation and communication with the group, in addition to with the builders of the varied Ethereum shoppers to ensure that the transition to go easily.
What occurs throughout a community improve?
After the group involves an settlement regarding which modifications needs to be included within the improve, modifications to the protocol are written into the varied Ethereum shoppers, equivalent to Besu, Erigon, go-ethereum and Nethermind. The protocol modifications are activated at a particular block quantity. Any nodes that haven’t been upgraded to the brand new rule set might be deserted on the previous chain the place the earlier guidelines live on.
Why “Gray Glacier”?
While we usually 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!
Thank you to Matt Palmer for the unique cowl picture and Tomo Saito for the modifications.
