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Ethereum's First Mainnet Shadow Fork Goes Live as Move to PoS Continues

The shadow fork will stress test developers' assumptions on existing testnets and the mainnet.

By Eliza GkritsiApr 11, 2022

Founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin during TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 (John Phillips/Creative Commons/CC2.0, modified by CoinDesk)

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