The Ethereum mainnet will undergo a Gray Glacier hard fork upgrade around block height 15050000 (around the end of June) to delay the difficulty bomb by about 2-3 months, according to official news from the Planetary Daily. All users must be activated before the block is triggered. to improve Geth, an Ethereum client, issued version 1.10.19 to force an upgrade, initiating the Gray Glacier hard fork.
Ethereum developer Tim Beiko has stated that the Ethereum network is projected to merge between late August and November, with only a catastrophic catastrophe or failure preventing the merger this year. Because of the technical problems, pinpointing the exact date of the merger is very impossible. Additionally, there are signs that Ethereum’s difficulty explosion is being postponed because developers are now correcting flaws uncovered during the Ropsten merger.
