Ethereum developers confirm the arrival of Berlin, the Ethereum update that will integrate several Enhancement Proposals (EIP) to the main network, for April 14.
After several months of development, the team at Ethereum (ETH), The second blockchain y cryptocurrency The most important digital industry platform, announces the launch on mainnet of the next network update, known as Berlin. The activation of this update is scheduled to occur on April 14, at block height 12.244.000, and will bring with it the implementation of several proposals for network improvements, called EIP (Ethereum Improvements Proposals) which will help Ethereum grow stronger as it continues its move towards transitioning from the Proof of Work consensus protocol, Proof of WorkPoW), towards the Proof of Stake or proof of stake (PoS).
The news was announced by the developer of the network, Tim Beiko, who in a publication On the Ethereum blog, it was reported how the execution schedule will be for the activation of this update on mainnet.
As Beiko explained, the activation of Berlin is scheduled to begin on March 10, at block height 9.812.189 on the Ethereum test network, ropsten; then, on March 17th it will continue on the test network Goerly, in block 4.460.644, and on the 24th, it will be activated on the test network Rinkeby in block 8.290.928 of this network. All this before its arrival on the Ethereum mainnet. Beiko also explained that although the planned date for its activation on the mainnet is April 14, the date could change due to the variability of block time on the network.
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EIPs to be activated in Berlin
As the developer explains, Berlin will activate 4 EIPs discussed and approved in the Ethereum crypto community in recent months, which will help the network improve several technical aspects.
The first of these proposals for improvements is the EIP-2565, which will introduce a new algorithm to calculate gas cost and help the network accurately reflect the operational cost and reduce the cost of ModExp precompilation. Berlin will also implement the proposed improvement EIP-2929, which will help the network to increase its security by raising the cost of gas for some specific operational codes. The proposal for improvement will also be activated EIP-2718, which introduces a new transaction type and will allow developers to create new transaction types easily. Finally, Berlin will introduce the proposal for an improvement EIP-2930, which adds a transaction type containing an access list, a list of addresses and storage keys that the transaction plans to access. This latest proposal was designed to mitigate some of the gas cost increases introduced by EIP-2929 by providing up to 10% off.
Update client versions
On the other hand, Beiko explains that node operators on Ethereum must update the version of the client they run to be compatible with Berlin. This must be done before implementing the update on the 3 testnets and before April 7 for the mainnet.
As it is a hard fork or hard fork, those node operators that do not upgrade to new versions of their clients to support Berlin will be stuck on the old chain, incompatible with the upgrade, and will therefore be unable to send Ether or operate on the Ethereum network.
«Ethereum node operators must upgrade their nodes prior to the fork block on the networks they intend to participate in. Due to the variability of block time, it is recommended to upgrade several days before the intended date.»
In the post, the developer provided the new versions available for the Go Ethereum (Geth), OpenEthereum, Nethermind, and Besu clients. For the TurboGeth and EthereumJS clients, Beiko explained that the updates will be ready for the Berlin mainnet launch, and that these clients will not have updates for the testnets. On the other hand, Trinity is deprecated and will therefore not support the Berlin update.
The new update will not affect users of exchanges y Wallets such as Metamask, MyCrypto or MyEtherWallet.
Ethereum, preparing for the future
Berlin, as already mentioned, is looking to improve the performance of the mainnet and also prepare it for future upgrades.
Ethereum is on its way to its biggest upgrade yet Ethereum 2.0, which will migrate the protocol to a new consensus model, known as PoS, where miners are replaced by validators on the network that will guarantee speed and high performance in the confirmation of transactions. This in turn will give Ethereum greater scalability and security.
At the time of this edition, Ethereum has a value of $1.820 USD, and a market capitalization of more than $208 billion.
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