{"id":18930,"date":"2026-04-02T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/final-steps-ethereum-foundation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:16:18","slug":"final-steps-ethereum-foundation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/final-steps-ethereum-foundation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Steps | Ethereum Foundation Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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An update as promised: all systems are now \u2018Go\u2019 on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on my previous blog post. What became apparent is that prior to the big day, many of you wanted to know more about what the sequence of events would exactly be, and how to prepare your machine for the release.<\/p>\n

<\/g><\/svg><\/a>A transparent and open release<\/h2>\n

Frontier users will need to first generate, then load the Genesis block into their Ethereum client. The Genesis block is pretty much a database file: it contains all the transactions from the Ether sale, and when a user inputs it into the client, it represents their decision to join the network under its terms: it is the first step to consensus.<\/p>\n

Because the ether pre-sale took place entirely on the bitcoin blockchain, its contents are public<\/a>, and anyone can generate and verify the Genesis block. In the interest of decentralization and transparency, Ethereum will not provide the Genesis block as a download, but instead has created an open source script that anyone can use to generate the file, a link to which can be found later on in this article.<\/p>\n

Since the script is already available and the release needs to be coordinated, an argument to the script has to be provided in order to ‘kick off’ Frontier in unison. But how can we do this and<\/em> stay decentralized?<\/p>\n

The argument needs to be a random parameter that no one, not even us, can predict. As you can imagine, there aren\u2019t too many parameters in the world that match this criteria, but a good one is the hash of a future block on the Ethereum testnet. We had to pick a block number, but which one? 1,028,201 turns out to be both prime and palindromic, just the way we like it. So #1028201 is it.<\/p>\n

Sequence of steps to the release:<\/em><\/p>\n