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In 2019 you probably read about the launch of the PoS beacon chain, as in the "phase 0" of what was then known as the Eth2 roadmap. Beacon chain launched in Dec
by 0x64 5y ago
In 2019 you probably read about the launch of the PoS beacon chain, as in the "phase 0" of what was then known as the Eth2 roadmap. Beacon chain launched in December of 2020, and since then the work on the merge has been ongoing, which is the hotswap of the network's consensus from Pow to PoS.
We're now in the phase where public testnets of full PoS Ethereum are running [1, 2]. Ideally, we'll have the merge before the next difficulty bomb goes off in June.
[1] https://kintsugi.themerge.dev/ https://kintsugi.themerge.dev/
[2] https://beaconchain.kintsugi.themerge.dev/ https://beaconchain.kintsugi.themerge.dev/