Because the Ethereum Shanghai update is imminent. The developers created a testing environment called a “shadow fork,” according to a tweet on Jan. 23.
Go-Ethereum developer Marius Van Der Wijden has created a ‘shadow fork’ to test the conditions required for withdrawals of staked Ether (ETH), which is currently disabled. But it is expected to be available for withdrawal in an update.
Withdrawal-Mainnet-Shadow-Fork-1 is finalizing
It started out with a few issues because the config wasn’t correctly applied on geth (we disallow overriding the mainnet config). The config is applied correctly and all nodes are in agreement. We will start some evil nodes,.
— MariusVanDerWijden (@vdWijden) January 23, 2023
The name of the test network is “Withdrawal-Mainnet-Shadow-Fork-1” According to Web3 node provider Alchemy, a “shadow fork” is a mainnet fork withobjectiveFor testing use only.
Van Der Wijden said he and another developer, Potuz, would create a malicious node. This sends blocks and bad messages to other nodes on the testnet and tries to convince them to join the fake version of the network. which for now The network is running smoothly, but Van Der Wijden has stated that he wants to “see if Potuz and I can break it.” This is to see if the upgrade can prevent malicious attacks. Or is it necessary to make additional changes before using it on mainnet?
There are currently more than 14.5 million ETH (valued at more than $23 billion at the time of writing).leave itin the Ethereum staking contract and currently cannot be withdrawn.
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