Ethereum expects Berlin upgrade on April 14, including four EIPs

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Cointelegraph Chinese (ID: CointelegraphChina)wrote, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.

After months of planning, the ethereum community has laid out a timeline for the upcoming Berlin upgrade, an important milestone in the ethereum development roadmap.

Tim BeikoMonday

wroteETH, the Berlin hard fork is scheduled to take place at block height 12244000 on April 14. Ropsten is the first testnet to be upgraded and is scheduled to be upgraded on March 10. The Goerli and Rinkeby networks are expected to undergo a week-long upgrade on March 17 and March 24 respectively.

Ethereum node operators are advised to upgrade to Berlin-compatible versions for the three testnets as soon as possible, and for the mainnet by April 7. Beiko explained:

“Ethereum node operators should upgrade their nodes before the network fork they want to participate in. Due to the variability of block times, it is recommended to upgrade a few days before the expected date.”

exchanges, wallet service providers and

Holders don't need to do anything to qualify for the upgrade.

In total, four Ethereum Improvement Protocols (EIPs) will be implemented via the Berlin hard fork. They include:

EIP-2565, which reduces the cost of ModExp precompiled contracts;

EIP-2929, which increases certain gas costs;EIP-2718, which introduces a new transaction type;EIP-2930, which includes a transaction type with an optional access list.Before the Berlin hard fork, the Istanbul and Muir Glacier upgrades took place in December 2019 and January 2020, respectively. The current upgrade is named after Devcon 0, which took place in Berlin. Ethereum’s next upgrade program will be called London, where Devcon 1 is being held.。

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