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Cloudflare to stake their $ETH to support the Merge, mainnet-shadow-fork-5 went exceedingly well, client bug bounties now $250k

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May 21

Ropsten testnet to upgrade to PoS around June 8; mainnet shadow fork 4 looked perfect; Nethermind beta snap sync

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May 14

mainnet shadow fork 3 almost perfect; ENS one million names created; Foundry Anvil local testnet node

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May 7

mainnet shadow fork 2 smooth sailing; Optimism $OP governance token, first airdrop Q2; 12 million ETH deposited

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Apr 30

Ethereum Foundation report: philosophy, ecosystem support & spending; Project Sunshine decentralization dashboard; Budweiser use ENS sub-domain

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Apr 23

mainnet shadow fork successful; the merge likely won’t be June; Underhanded Solidity Contest winners

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Apr 16

Core Devs to decide Apr 29 when to fork testnets; client diversity: Prysm 56%, Geth 87%; Vitalik's simplified single secret leader election

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Apr 9

No more supermajority staking client; Foundry v0.2.0; Besu bonsai tries (“super pruning”) live

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Apr 2

Running majority client puts you at serious risk; help test the merge; GameStop NFT marketplace on Loopring & Immutable X opens for signups

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Mar 26

Kiln testnet successfully switched off PoW; Time Magazine puts Vitalik on the cover; Sign-In with Ethereum Discourse plugin

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Mar 19

Kiln testnet launched to test PoW switch off; Execution Layer PoW switch off named Paris; Yuga Labs acquires CryptoPunks & Meebits

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Mar 12

Ukraine accepting crypto donations; Optimism to reduce fees by 30-40% with compression; Vouch considered best practice for staking services

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Mar 5

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