Release Clients

Latest news about the upcoming merge.

Hi all,

Gnosis is releasing its first official merge-ready clients today, to prepare for the Merge (scheduled ~7th December 2022).

Community members are encouraged to upgrade their clients by the Bellatrix epoch on 30th November, and will need to run both an Execution Layer (EL) client and a Consensus Layer client (CL).

Execution Layer client

✅ Nethermind 1.14.6: https://github.com/NethermindEth/nethermind/releases/tag/1.14.6

Consensus Layer client

✅ Teku v22.11.0: https://github.com/ConsenSys/teku/releases/tag/22.11.0

✅ Lodestar v1.2.2: https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/releases/tag/v1.2.2

✅ Lighthouse v.3.3.0: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v3.3.0

🟡 Nimbus: coming soon

❌ Prysm: advised to switch to other clients

DAppNode Package

✅ DAppNodePackage-nethermind-xdai v1.0.17 https://github.com/dappnode/DAppNodePackage-nethermind-xdai/releases/tag/v1.0.17

✅ DAppNodePackage-teku-gnosis v0.1.4 https://github.com/dappnode/DAppNodePackage-teku-gnosis/releases/tag/v0.1.4

✅ DAppNodePackage-web3signer-gnosis v0.1.9 https://github.com/dappnode/DAppNodePackage-web3signer-gnosis/releases/tag/v0.1.9

✅ DAppNodePackage-lighthouse-gnosis 0.1.4 https://github.com/dappnode/DAppNodePackage-lighthouse-gnosis/releases/tag/v0.1.4

🚫 DAppNodePackage-gnosis-beacon-chain-prysm TBA ⏳

🟡DAppNodePackage-Lodestar-Gnosis TBA - After Merge ⏳

🟡DAppNodePackage-nimbus-gnosis TBA - After Merge ⏳

Validators running Prysm should be prepared to switch to one of the merge ready clients, as a Gnosis-compatible Prysm will not be available pre-merge. Instructions for switching from Prysm to a new client are available here: https://docs.prylabs.network/docs/advanced/switch-clients

Merge Details: https://docs.gnosischain.com/specs/hard-forks/merge