Ethereum developers take put out a telephone call to the customs to assistance exam the long-awaited merge betwixt the Ethereum mainnet and the proof-of-stake (PoS) based Buoy Chain.

The merge is a major milestone of the transition to Ethereum ii.0 equally it will run into the Ethereum network become a PoS blockchain, decreasing its energy consumption by 99%.

On Monday, Ethereum programmer Marius van der Wijden appear a new plan to get the community involved in merge testing that caters to iii tiers: non-technical users, developers with express feel in blockchain, and highly technical and experienced blockchain developers.

For not-technical users, the cocky-guided program provides them with tasks, such equally setting upwardly consensus layer clients, reporting failures and sending transactions.

Technical users can select objectives, such as running their own validators, testing and deploying contracts, and setting up their ain testnets, while highly technical users can review the specifications, propose invalid blocks, and carve up the network past voting on invalid blocks.

The program calls on all participants to document as much of their work as possible and share it online nether the #TestingTheMerge hashtag on Twitter. Wijden has too pointed the community toward the Ethereum R&D Discord aqueduct to maintain communication throughout the testing program.

"The plan is not compensated, just if yous discover a critical bug (consensus effect/panic), I'll buy y'all a beverage of your selection at the next DevCon!" Wijden teased in the program outline.

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Co-ordinate to the Eth2 page on Ethereum.org, the Beacon Chain merge will have been officially completed by Q1 or Q2 of 2022. The merge is seen as the concluding chapter in the blockchain's evolution to PoS consensus; however, there is still more than work to do before the transition to Eth2 and sharding is consummate.

The final piece of the puzzle is the shard chains upgrade slated for tardily 2022, which will see the network's load spread across 64 new chains to assist the network scale its capabilities in a decentralized manner, ramp up transactions per second, and bring down gas fees in the procedure.