As many as 73.5% of Ethereum ETH 0.75% nodes are now marked as merge-ready ahead of the upcoming Bellatrix upgrade for Ethereum on September 6.
To be ready for the merger, Ethereum node operators must comply with Bellatrix’s upgrade. Update its consensus layer client ahead of Beacon Chain’s epoch 144896, which will take place on September 6, 2022.
A whopping 26.7% of nodes were also flagged as not ready to participate in the Ethereum merger.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and core developer Tim Beiko took to Twitter to call on remaining node operators to update their clients.