Ethereum’s upcoming Merge should not be surprise for market, but some problems may still happen during transition
Ethereum’s merger with the Beacon Chain should go smoothly for users, according to the Merge testnet, which we saw recently. But despite no major outages and issues with the network, updating on the mainnet may not go as smoothly as expected.
As validators’ data suggests, around 14% of all validators had downtime during the transition, which should not be a problem during transactions on the mainnet. The majority of validators had an issue with the nimbus-team configs, fixed by the redeploy.
The remaining 5% had issues with minor bugs that caused downtime and were fixed with a simple node restart.
By projecting issues on the mainnet transition, developers found out that only 9% of operators would face issues and configuration problems. Two small bugs appearing during the testnet transition would affect only a minority of all stakes on the network.
If Ethereum faces the same issues when merging with the mainnet, the transitions should be considered surprisingly successful considering the size of the network and the number of operations taking place on it.
Previously, U.Today noticed that traders and investors are not feeling so excited about the Merge and do not think that successful transition of the biggest Ethereum testnet should affect the price in any way.
We have yet to see the reaction of the market when the real merger will occur, but analysts do not expect anything exceptional from the update since the majority of investors and traders in the market have already evaluated the update. day, unless something unusual happens.
At press time, Ethereum is trading at $1,767 and has lost 1% of its value in the last 24 hours.
