The much-anticipated transition of Ethereum from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake – “The Merge” is getting closer by the day as another of its testnets, Sepolia, activated PoS consensus.
Sepolia combined their PoW execution and PoS consensus layers, becoming the second of three public testnets to go through The Merge. Over the next few days, developers will continue to monitor the testnet to ensure that it is operating normally under PoS and to iron out any potential bugs.
On June 8, the first testnet merge, Ropsten, was completed. Only Goerli/Prater will need to be merged after Sepolia before moving to the Ethereum mainnet. The Sepolia merge occurred in two stages, the first at an epoch height on the Beacon Chain & the second when the total difficulty value on the execution layer was reached.