State of the Merge

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Upgrading Ethereum’s consensus from PoW to PoS is now a concrete engineering project: the merge spec release is cut, a execution payload inserted into beacon block is the planned data model, and a RPC interface between eth1 and beacon clients defines how existing execution engines stay unchanged while consensus swaps. Clients must implement the hard-fork spec (already released), the merge devnet testing run is about to start, and work focuses on unit/integration tests, cross-client interoperability (pick two clients and stitch them), and validator tooling to prove it all works.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:38Overview
3. 3:12End Goal
4. 5:38State of the Merge
5. 12:36Where are we today
6. 17:40Where can you get involved
7. 22:53Questions

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