{"id":18088,"date":"2026-03-08T22:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/finalized-no-30-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:24:33","slug":"finalized-no-30-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/finalized-no-30-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalized no. 30 | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/images\/posts\/upload_4dae2a4ab4b6c89615b4b5c624c04b52.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\">tl;dr<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\">Altair is fast approaching. Upgrade your nodes! <strong><em class=\"chakra-text css-0\">Now!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"chakra-heading group css-1kpzc4q\" id=\"upgrade-to-altair-before-oct-27\" data-group=\"true\"><a class=\"chakra-link css-128fqrf\" aria-label=\"upgrade to altair before oct 27 permalink\" href=\"#upgrade-to-altair-before-oct-27\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"chakra-icon css-173jpr1\"><g fill=\"currentColor\"><path d=\"M10.458,18.374,7.721,21.11a2.853,2.853,0,0,1-3.942,0l-.892-.891a2.787,2.787,0,0,1,0-3.941l5.8-5.8a2.789,2.789,0,0,1,3.942,0l.893.892A1,1,0,0,0,14.94,9.952l-.893-.892a4.791,4.791,0,0,0-6.771,0l-5.8,5.8a4.787,4.787,0,0,0,0,6.77l.892.891a4.785,4.785,0,0,0,6.771,0l2.736-2.735a1,1,0,1,0-1.414-1.415Z\"\/><path d=\"M22.526,2.363l-.892-.892a4.8,4.8,0,0,0-6.77,0l-2.905,2.9a1,1,0,0,0,1.414,1.414l2.9-2.9a2.79,2.79,0,0,1,3.941,0l.893.893a2.786,2.786,0,0,1,0,3.942l-5.8,5.8a2.769,2.769,0,0,1-1.971.817h0a2.766,2.766,0,0,1-1.969-.816,1,1,0,1,0-1.415,1.412,4.751,4.751,0,0,0,3.384,1.4h0a4.752,4.752,0,0,0,3.385-1.4l5.8-5.8a4.786,4.786,0,0,0,0-6.771Z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/a>\ud83d\udea8Upgrade to Altair before Oct 27\ud83d\udea8<\/h2>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\">As mentioned in the <a class=\"chakra-link css-vezwxf\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/2021\/09\/28\/finalized-no-29\">previous Finalized post<\/a>,<br \/>\nAltair is scheduled to go live at epoch 74240 &#8212; Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC. See the <a class=\"chakra-link css-vezwxf\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/2021\/10\/05\/altair-announcement\">Altair Mainnet Announcement<\/a> for details on who, how, and why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\">Suffice it to say here that the upgrade is in approximately one week, so the time to upgrade your node is <em class=\"chakra-text css-0\">now<\/em>. If you run a validator on the beacon chain, you <em class=\"chakra-text css-0\">must<\/em> upgrade before the Altair upgrade epoch or else you will experience downtime penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><strong>Note<\/strong>: 4 of the 5 mainnet clients &#8212; Nimbus, Teku, Lighthouse, and Prysm &#8212; have made minor version releases since the original Altair announcement (updated list <a class=\"chakra-link css-vezwxf\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/2021\/10\/05\/altair-announcement\">here<\/a>). Because these new releases contain a mix of security patches and optimizations, we <em class=\"chakra-text css-0\">highly<\/em> recommend running the latest client release even if you have already upgraded for Altair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\">Upgrade now! \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/en\/2021\/10\/19\/finalized-no-30\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tl;dr Altair is fast approaching. Upgrade your nodes! Now! \ud83d\udea8Upgrade to Altair before Oct 27\ud83d\udea8 As mentioned in the previous Finalized post, Altair is scheduled to go live at epoch 74240 &#8212; Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC. See the Altair Mainnet Announcement for details on who, how, and why. Suffice it to say here that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"kronos_expire_date":[],"class_list":["post-18088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18088"},{"taxonomy":"kronos_expire_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kronos_expire_date?post=18088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}