The upgrade was initially planned to be launched in late March, but now it is expected to be rolled out in the first two weeks of April
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The expected release of the Shanghai hard fork by Ethereum developers has been postponed by around two weeks.
The upgrade was initially planned to be launched in late March, but now it is expected to be rolled out in the first two weeks of April.
The delay was disclosed during an Ethereum developer meeting on March 2. In the meeting, the main developers agreed that the Shanghai hard fork would take place approximately two weeks after the Goerli testnet release, which is scheduled for March 14.
The Goerli testnet is going to be the last trial run before the Shanghai upgrade is implemented on the mainnet.
According to Tim Beiko, a coordinator and core developer of the Ethereum project, they typically give users at least two weeks' notice after making an announcement before implementing an upgrade on the main network.