‘Withdrawals are coming!’ — Ethereum devs confirm epoch for Shapella fork
Shapella will take effect at epoch 194,048, which is scheduled for 10:27:35pm UTC on April 12. Ethereum validators will soon be able to withdraw their Ether (ETH) from the Beacon Chain, with the Shapella Hard Fork set to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet on April 12. Shapella will take effect at epoch 194,048, which is scheduled for 10:27 pm UTC on April 12, Ethereum core developers confirmed. The withdrawals will be enabled by Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-4895 by “pushing” staked Ether from the Beacon Chain to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), otherwise known as the execution layer. It's happening Shapella is scheduled on mainnet for epoch 194048, scheduled for 22:27:35 UTC on Apr. 12, 2023 Client releases compatible with the upgrade are listed in the announcement below https://t.co/I0hSv9lnjz — timbeiko.eth ️ (@TimBeiko) March 28, 2023 The epoch, slot, and time were confirmed following a week-long deliberation between members of the Ethereum Foundation, which w...