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Ethereum devs share progress report on Beacon Chain

As per the release, work on Altair, which is the first planned upgrade of the Beacon Chain, is going as planned. Once the code changes on Altair stabilize and the multi-client interop is performed, client teams will be allowed to “pass consensus test vectors and stand up short-lived testnets. The timeline decision will happen in the next few weeks.

Ethereum also disclosed that the Rayonism hackathon was completed. According to the Ethereum, the event attracted dozens of nodes and thousands of validators that built and secured a beacon chain with support for Ethereum’s application layer. The team explained:

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