Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko shared the content of The Merge conference on Twitter. The meeting showed that the two previous shadow forks went relatively smoothly without major problems, but the shadow fork will continue to look for possible vulnerabilities before the testnet is officially forked.
In terms of MEV, the results of the conference discussions showed that mev-boost will have an additional constraint in the future, and the block builder needs to respect the gas limit selected by the validator.
Finally, Tim Beiko expressed his opinion on the difficulty bomb. Since the difficulty bomb has a great impact on the miners and user experience, he believes that the setting and activation of the difficulty bomb should be cautious, and the client team members even support the removal of the difficulty bomb.