Ethereum's Sepolia Testnet Successfully Transitions to Proof-of-Stake

The Sepolia testnet merge moves Ethereum one step closer to its mainnet upgrade later this year. cryptauxmargaux reports.

The penultimate test environment network merge before Ethereum makes its long-awaited move from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake has successfully been completed.

Sepolia was the second of three public testnets to run through the Merge. After this, Goerli is expected to merge. The network transitioned to proof-of-stake when the Terminal Total Difficulty exceeded 17,000,000,000,000,000. This occurred around 17:00 UTC.The Sepolia merge was a two-step process.that first the operators needed to update their consensus layer and execution layer clients together. Then this activated two phases: the first at an epoch height on the Beacon Chain and the second upon hitting the total difficulty value on the execution layer.

The testnet merge takes the project one step closer to Ethereum's mainnet upgrade later this year. The first testnet merge, Ropsten, was

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