Two Ethereum clients, Nethermind and Go Ethereum, have discovered bugs in their mainnet merge updates. Ethereum developer Péter Szilágyi first noticed the bugs and announced via Twitter that Geth 1.10.22 — Promavess — contains a regression. Aaand our latest release is borked. 😕 Geth 1.10.22 contains a regression that causes the trie/state to go bad….
The merge event on the Ethereum network is the transition to the Proof-of-Stake consensus model from the currently employed Proof-of-Work model. This merger means that the current Ethereum mainnet system and the new Beacon chain, often referred to as Ethereum 2.0, will merge into one blockchain. To test the merge, the Kintsugi testnet was deployed…