The Ethereum Bellatrix upgrade, which kicks off the ultimate countdown for the much-anticipated Merge upgrade, is now reside.
ETH price shot above $1,678 minutes after the Bellatrix upgrade was activated. At press time, ETH price had, nevertheless, dropped to $1,598.80 virtually eroding the features made after the Bellatrix upgrade.
The Bellatrix upgrade has added impetus to the recovering Ether that had beforehand been struggling amid robust bearish headwinds.
What is the Bellatrix upgrade?
The Merge is a two-step course of and step one is the Bellatrix upgrade that was triggered by an epoch peak. The second step is the Paris upgrade that will likely be triggered by the focused Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) of 58750000000000000000000 anticipated to be reached between September thirteenth and fifteenth.
Bellatrix is the final upgrade on Ethereum’s Beacon Chain earlier than the Ethereum blockchain utterly shifts from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (Pos). The Beacon Chain went reside final yr.
Currently, every Ethereum node is represented on two completely different layers, the principle chain which is a proof-of-work layer and the C layer (consensus layer). The Merge is predicted to mix these two layers and transition to a PoS-based blockchain.
Bellatrix upgrade will allow validators to begin producing up to date Beacon Blocks, which can then include the codebase for the merging of the 2 layers.