Ethereum’s Testnet Ropsten PoS Merge Commences Now!

• ETH testnet Ropsten merge to PoS onsets.
• Developers are confident over the merge.
• Price of ETH is expected to soar high currently.

Any news or upgrades or highlights or even something which we could expect from the stables of Ethereum (ETH) are usually a rare sighted blood moon. Accordingly, the latest news on surrounds for the past few days with regards to ETH’s Ropsten testnet to Proof of Stake (PoS) merge has been talked about.

Accordingly, this Ropsten testnet merge ought to take place right now, at the current time of writing, on 8th June, 2022. Team and developers from Ethereum have announced officially regarding the Ropsten merge to take place any minute now. 

 In spite of all the above, the Ropsten testnet, is ETH’s oldest testnet. This will now transition and upgrade itself from Proof-of-Work(PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). Once done,. This will combine directly to the ETH main blockchain, thereby enabling PoS, basically staking features to ETH. 

Behind the Scenes

The Ropsten merge is quite a hectic process accounting to the software being used by the client enables seamless functioning of the ETH nodes. Besides, extreme cautions are monitored so that no bug interferes during the transition process. 

In spite of this, there are several software clients taking part in the Ropsten PoS merge. These are Prysm, Teku, Lighthouse, Nimbus, Lodestar, Besu, Erigon, Nethermind and go-Ethereum (geth).

In addition, this transition will take place only after the PoW state of the Ropsten exceeds the Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD). Also, during the merge, the hashrate is being fixed to about 50,000 Hashrate per second. 

Moreover, being a testnet, the Ropsten hashrate is indeed low. Because of this, the node operators have to manually configure to to jumpove the TTD. With all this into account, the new PoS beacon chain for ETH will indirectly impact a surge upon the price of ETH evidently. 

Currently, ETH isntarding for the price of $1,812, with the graphs sticking hard above by 1.95%, taking into account the past 24 hours. Also, the price is expected to surpass $2K for sure by tomorrow.