tldr; Ethereum’s main public testnet, Ropsten, is set to undergo “the merge” next month in one of the final preparations before the main Ethereum blockchain can switch to proof-of-stake consensus. Parithosh Jayanthi, who works in devops at the Ethereum Foundation, merged the pull request.
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