{"id":18143,"date":"2026-03-10T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/finalized-no-26-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:45:39","slug":"finalized-no-26-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/finalized-no-26-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalized no. 26 | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Steady progress<\/p>\n

tl;dr<\/p>\n

<\/g><\/svg><\/a>Altair progress<\/h2>\n

Altair, the first planned upgrade of the Beacon Chain, continues to make steady progress. Last week, we released Beacon Chain spec v1.1.0-alpha.6<\/span> — Protostellar Evolution<\/a>. While this is an alpha release, barring a security or practical engineering concern, the spec is unlikely to change from here on in.<\/p>\n

Client teams are busy as they pass consensus test vectors and stand up short-lived testnets. Teams will make timeline decisions in the next few weeks as Altair code changes stablize and initial multi-client interop is performed.<\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about the upgrades coming to the Beacon Chain in Altair, check out Vitalik’s recent release of annotated Altair specs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/g><\/svg><\/a>Rayonism wrap-up and Merge progress<\/h2>\n

The Rayonism hackathon<\/a> wrapped up last week with the Nocturne testnet — a multi-client Merge testnet consisting of 4 consensus-engines and 3 execution-engines for a total of 12 unique client pairs.<\/p>\n

Dozens of nodes and thousands of validators built and secured a beacon chain that provided native support for a rich Ethereum application-layer with accounts, contracts, and user transactions.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf89 Huge shoutout to all of the participating client teams and to protolambda and Mikhail for driving the effort \ud83c\udf89<\/em><\/p>\n

The Rayonism hackathon allowed teams to rapidly prototype core Merge designs and to better understand how this merged system will work in practice. All teams now have a deep familiarity with the structure of the Merge, and a clear visual on how their software will evolve in this coming year.<\/p>\n

Client teams are now focused on this summer’s two forks — London<\/a> and Altair<\/a> — while researchers are back to Merge<\/a> spec refinements and testing. After the summer upgrades, teams will shift their focus to the Merge, and begin tackling the production engineering with an eye toward public testnets \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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