Bellatrix upgrade goes live, sets stage for Ethereum’s Merge

The Bellatrix hard fork has just been activate on the Beacon chain and now only the Paris event remains before Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake. The Bellatrix upgrade was activated at epoch 144896 on the Beacon Chain and is now live. The Paris upgrade is next, and once activated, it will complete the Ethereum network’s transition to the proof-of-stake system. Earlier in the day, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced on Twitter that the Merge will be triggered between Sept. 13 to Sept. 15. Each Ethereum node is run on two layers, the consensus layer (‘C layer’) and the proof-of-work (PoS) layer — currently the main network — which communicates via an Application Programming Interface.