74% of Ethereum nodes are “merge ready” before Bellatrix upgrade

Need to update Ethereum clients comes as Bellatrix upgrade is configured to allow Beacon chain to run transactions.

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Up to 73.5% of Ethereum nodes are now marked as "merge-ready" ahead of Bellatrix's next upgrade for Ethereum on September 6, according to data from Ethernodes.

The Bellatrix upgrade is seen as one of the last steps needed before the official merger, which will see Ethereum transition to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism between September 10 and September 20.

To be ready for the merge, Ethereum node operators must comply with Bellatrix's upgrade by updating its consensus layer clients before epoch 144896 on the Beacon Chain, which is expected to take place on September 6 at 11:34:47 UTC. 2022, according to the Ethereum Foundation.

Percentage Ethereum customers who are ready for the merger. Source: Ethernodes.

However, with 26.5% of nodes marked "Not Ready" for the Ethereum merger, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and lead developer Tim Beiko are turning to Twitter to push remaining node operators updates their customers.

Bellatrix is ​​tomorrow Last chance to update your node if you haven't already!

We are merging https://t.co/0VQ9zb6wjN

—Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth (@TimBeiko) September 5, 2022

According to the Ethereum Foundation, node operators who do not update before the Bellatrix hard fork will cause Ethereum clients to "synchronize with the pre-fork blockchain", warning:

"[Node operators] will be stuck on an incompatible chain under the old rules and will not be able to send Ether or operate on the Post-Merge Ethereum network."

According to Ethernodes, most of the "not ready" nodes are on the geth client, which has not yet upgraded to geth v1.10.23 or higher.

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