Ethereum’s Ropsten test network successfully performs branching

The main goal of the Ropsten Testnet fork is to prepare for the consolidation of Ethereum’s mainnet by the end of the year. The consolidation is the much-anticipated transition of blockchain from the current Proof-of-work mechanism to the Proof-Of-Stake Consensus algorithm with the goal of reducing energy consumption.

outEthereum’s core developers have conducted consolidation tests, including one shadow fork on the Mainnet and another merge on the Kiln testnet.

The event will integrate code from two Ropsten strings – a Proof of Work (POW) and a proof-of-stake (POS) signaling chain – into one. The same process will be used when consolidation takes place on the Ethereum mainnet.

According to the review, ropsten consolidation is one of several important processes in ensuring that the software on the Ethereum client’s node runs smoothly and without problems during the event. Lighthouse, Lodestar, Prysm, Nimbus, Teku, Besu, Erigon, go-ethereum (geth) and Nethermind are among the guest software projects involved in the next Ropsten merger.

The Ropsten network just merged!

One of the last testnets until we merge on the #Ethereum mainnet🐼https://t.co/3lvlUfcAT4 pic.twitter.com/knd1IBlD8A

— Bitfly (@etherchain_org) June 8, 2022

It is only when Ropsten’s version of proof of work has passed a predetermined indicator called the total difficulty of the terminal that consolidation takes place. The index is defaulted to an extremely high level of $50 million to prevent any organization from attempting to interfere with the consolidation process by accumulating a fake encryption rate.

Ropsten’s encryption speed is low because it is a test network, so merge node operators will have to manually modify both the executable and consensus values of the guest node to override the Ropsten Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) (understood as the total difficulty of the Ropsten terminal). 

Developers will continue to schedule branching tests on other test networks, such as Goerli and Sepolia, as soon as customers report and resolve issues found during the ropsten test.