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Before the Bellatrix upgrade, 74% of Ethereum nodes were “merge ready.”

Ethernodes data shows that as many as 73.5% of Ethereum nodes are now marked as “Merge Ready” before the Bellatrix upgrade for Ethereum on Tuesday.

The Bellatrix upgrade is seen as one of the last steps that need to be taken before the official Merge. Between Sept. 10 and 20, Ethereum will switch to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.

To be ready for Merge, operators of Ethereum nodes must comply with the Bellatrix upgrade by updating their consensus layer clients before epoch 144896 on the Beacon Chain, which is set to happen at 11:34:47 UTC on September 6, 2022.

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How many Ethereum clients are ready for the merge?Ethernodes is the source.
But because 26.5% of nodes were marked “not ready” for the Ethereum Merge, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and core developer Tim Beiko took to Twitter to remind the remaining node operators to update their clients.

The Ethereum Foundation says that the Ethereum clients will “sync to the pre-fork blockchain” if the node operators don’t make the update before the Bellatrix hard fork.

“[Node operators] will be stuck on an old, incompatible chain and won’t be able to send Ether or do anything else on the Ethereum network after the merge.”
Ethernodes says that most of the “Not-Ready” nodes are Geth clients that haven’t upgraded to Geth v1.10.23 or higher.

Erigon, Besu, and Nethermind are also Ethereum clients with node operators that need to be updated.

Validating blocks requires Ethereum nodes, which can be run by different Ethereum client software with different coding languages and codebases.

The last part of the Ethereum Merge will happen after the Bellatrix upgrade. This is called the Paris event, and it will happen when the Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) reaches 58750000000000000000000, which is expected to happen around September 15.

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Once the execution layer goes over this TTD, a beacon chain validator will make the next block. When this block is finished, Ethereum’s blockchain will be fully switched over to the proof-of-stake system.

The Ethereum Foundation says that Ethereum users don’t have to do anything with their Ether (ETH) and other assets based on Ethereum during the Merge, but they should watch out for scams that say they do.

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