The Berlin upgrade, which will make the Ethereum blockchain a more secure, faster network with more affordable fees for a certain type of transaction, was activated in block 12.244.000 of the network, which was mined on Thursday. Although its activation was successful, it was initially hampered by some client failures.
The developers of the network Ethereum (ETH), The second blockchain most important in the crypto industry by capitalization, announced the activation of Berlin, the update scheduled to be activated in a hard fork of the network, in the block 12.244.000, and with which several proposals for improvements are introduced to optimize its operation.
Berlin arrived on Ethereum this Thursday, the developer reported Beiko Team in your Twitter account.
As reported by Bit2Me News, the activation of Berlin on the Ethereum blockchain introduces 4 improvement proposals, called EIPs, that seek to make the network more secure, faster and with more accessible fees, although this update itself does not promise to reduce the network's gas fees, as it will London, the next hard fork Ethereum, scheduled to go live in July of this year.
With Berlin, EIPs 2565, 2718, 2929, 2930 are coming to the Ethereum network. Of these, EIP-2565 is the one that will reduce gas costs, but only for a specific type of transaction that uses modular exponentiation, and not for all transactions on the network in general. The rest of the EIPs are focused on optimizing the network, to make it compatible with its previous versions; to increase gas costs on opcode transactions, and thus increase the security of the blockchain against attacks Denial of Services (DoS); and to add a new transaction type to Ethereum.
Although the Berlin activation occurred successfully for most nodes on the network, the OpenEthereum client experienced synchronization failures, which prevented nodes from operating normally on the network after the fork.
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Version 3.2.3 for OpenEthereum
The OpenEthereum client was quick to release a new version of its software to fix the synchronization issues that occurred on its nodes after the activation of Berlin. As reported via Twitter, the new version 3.2.3 was necessary to fix the upgrade consensus error in Berlin.
Developer Hudson Jameson had indicated in the morning that the creators of the client were aware of the error, and that they were working on a solution to resolve the problem as soon as possible.
While the outages were occurring, the Etherscan service, the largest Ethereum block explorer in the industry, was interrupted at block height 12.244.294. Etherscan showed this block as the last one mined on the network, while all other explorers were up to date. Following the release of OpenEthereum version 3.2.3, the explorer restored its services. At the time of this writing, block number 12.248.925 is the last one to be mined on the network, according to the company. Etherscan.
ETH at highs
The arrival of Berlin is one more step towards the activation of London, the most anticipated hard fork on the network for the activation of the EIP-1559, designed to reduce gas costs and make network transactions much more accessible and affordable for everyone. This upgrade also paves the way for Ethereum's biggest and most anticipated upgrade: the Ethereum 2.0. The latter will completely migrate the network to the proof-of-stake protocol (PoS), which will make the blockchain more scalable and faster, offering high performance for its users and developers.
Finally, Ethereum's improvements are causing a feeling of optimism and positivity in the network, which is driving up the value of ETH in the markets. At the time of this writing, the price of ETH is $2.480, although the cryptocurrency found a new all-time high at $2.544 recently. Commission fees on the network are close to $XNUMX. $17.
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