After a smooth Goerli transition, client teams have scheduled the Shapella upgrade for mainnet activation. Consensus was quickly reached on an April 12th date during the 157th AllCoreDevs Execution Layer meeting. This upgrade follows The Merge and enables validators to withdraw their stake from the Beacon Chain back to the execution layer. It also introduces new functionality to both the execution and consensus layer, described below. Upgrade Specification The Shapella upgrade combines changes to the execution layer (Shanghai), consensus layer (Capella) and the Engine API. Shanghai Execution layer changes included in ... (full story)