'Huge testing milestone' for Ethereum: Ropsten testnet Merge set for June 8

'Huge testing milestone' for Ethereum: Ropsten testnet Merge set for June 8

“Merging Ropsten is a huge testing milestone towards Ethereum's mainnet merge later this year,” said Preston Van Loon, an Ethereum core developer at Prysmatic Labs. The Ethereum ecosystem is set for a “huge testing milestone” with the Ropsten testnet Merge set to be conducted on June 8. According to the Merge testnets page on Github, Ethereum DevOps engineer Parathi Jayanathi submitted a pull request for the Ropsten testnet Merge configuration code on Monday, suggesting the implementation is ready to go. Ropsten is one of several testnets created by the Ethereum Foundation in 2017 and....


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