After months of planning, the Ethereum community has laid out a timeline for its upcoming Berlin upgrade, mark an of import milestone in its development roadmap.

Berlin is scheduled to become live on the Ethereum mainnet at block 12,244,000, or April fourteen, Tim Beiko wrote on Monday. Ropsten, the first testnet to upgrade, is scheduled for March 10. The Goerli and Rinkeby networks are expected to upgrade in 1-week increments on March 17 and March 24, respectively.

Ethereum node operators are being brash to upgrade to a Berlin-compatible version equally soon every bit possible for the three testnets and before Apr 7 for the mainnet. Beiko explained:

"Ethereum node operators should upgrade their nodes prior to the fork block on the networks they want to participate in. Due to cake time variability, it is recommended to update several days before the expected date."

Exchanges, wallet service providers and Ether (ETH) tokenholders are non required to practice anything to accommodate the upgrade.

A total of 4 Ethereum Improvement Protocols, or EIPs, will be implemented via Berlin. They include:

  • EIP-2565, which lowers the toll of the ModExp precompile
  • EIP-2929, which increases sure gas costs
  • EIP-2718, which introduces a new transaction blazon
  • EIP-2930, which includes a transaction type with optional access lists.

Berlin follows the Istanbul and Muir Glacier upgrades, which took place in December 2019 and January 2020, respectively. The electric current upgrade was named after Devcon 0, which took place in Berlin. Ethereum'south next planned upgrade will be called London, where Devcon 1 happened.

Ethereum is still riding the momentum of its Ethereum 2.0 rollout in Dec 2020. Eth2 kicks off a multiyear upgrade of the blockchain network as it attempts to transition from its existing proof-of-work consensus to a proof-of-pale model.

ETH price rose half-dozen.v% on Monday to $i,767. At current values, Ethereum has a total marketplace capitalization of $201 billion.