Key Takeaways
Galaxy Digital’s analyst Christine Kim stated that the last “shadow fork” ahead of Ethereum Merge wasn’t successful owing to problems with node synchronization. The next mainnet shadow fork is tentatively planned around the first week of July.
Galaxy Digital’s analyst Christine Kim took to Twitter to share details of Ethereum’s latest All Core Devs Call #141 meeting results and the next steps on road to The Merge.
According to the thread, the last “shadow fork” wasn’t successful owing to problems with node synchronization. Kim stated that around 20% of nodes dropped off right at Merge activation and more nodes dropped off thereafter.
Further, some problems were identified regarding the “Bonsai Trees” data storage design and Nethermind-Teku client pair. These problems pointed out that the participating teams are not ready for the upcoming upgrade. Kim continued that the drop-off was caused by issues that arose from the Erigon and Hyperledger Besu nodes.
Recap of Ethereum ACD call #141