TechFlow news, as Ethereum gradually transitions toward a proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism, its first mainnet shadow fork went live on Monday.
Ethereum Foundation developer Parithosh Jayanthi said the shadow fork is a way to "stress test assumptions around synchronization and state growth," and it will also provide "a method to check whether our assumptions hold for existing testnets and/or mainnet." Jayanthi warned that the shadow fork will share some data with the Ethereum mainnet, so certain transactions may appear on both chains.
Ethereum developer Tim Beiko stated that results from the shadow fork are crucial in determining the final merge timeline.
According to block explorer data shared by developer Marius Van Der Wijden, as of publication time, the shadow fork has processed 2,837,970 transactions, with an average block time of 13.5 seconds.
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