BREAKING: Ethereum’s Tentative Merge Upgrade Date Revealed to Be September 15/16

Ethereum’s highly anticipated merge could happen earlier than the much touted September 19 date, according to available information.

• A Consensus call held on August 11 has revealed that Ethereum’s mainnet merge could happen as early as September 15 or 16.
• Developers revealed that they would work towards making the Bellatrix upgrade live around Sept. 6, 2022.

Tentative Mainnet Bellatrix fork slot/time ?

Epoch: 144896
Time: 9/6/2022, 11:34:47 AM (UTC)

— terence.eth ?? (@terencechain) August 11, 2022

• The total terminal difficulty (TTD) mark in which the merge would happen is 58,750,000,000,000,000,000,000.

58750000000000000000000 ! pic.twitter.com/NGyqLPUez7

— parithosh | ???? (@parithosh_j) August 11, 2022

• Ethereum developers also spoke about the possibility of speeding up the hashrate, a situation which would see the Merge happen on September 16.

Ethereum's value has risen by around 4% in the last 24 hours on the back of the successful completion of the Goerli testnet merge. It is currently changing hands for $1900. Check out our price prediction for Ethereum - ETH is estimated to reach $ 2,340 By Aug 16, 2022.