The new development was passed across moments ago by Preston Van Loon, a developer on the Ethereum 2.0 client Prysm.

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Preston Van Loon tweeted, “Altair has activated successfully! Finality was uninterrupted and participation dropped as low as 93.3% in the first Altair epoch (exact number to be confirmed). Participation is now above 95%.”

Finality was uninterrupted and participation dropped as low as 93.3% in the first Altair epoch (exact number to be confirmed). Participation is now above 95%.

— prestonvanloon.eth (@preston_vanloon) October 27, 2021

As earlier described by the Ethereum Foundation, the Altair upgrade gives engineering teams something concrete to dig into.

Ethereum Foundation also stated that “Altair is an upgrade to the beacon chain that brings light client support, minor patches to incentives, per-validator inactivity leak accounting, an increase in slashing severity, and cleanups to validator rewards accounting for simplified state management.”

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Regarding the success of Altair activation, Paul Hauner of Lighthouse said:

“All is looking good on our nodes. However, we think about 6% of validators haven’t updated… Someone is producing non-Altair blocks. That’s expected and totally fine. We can tolerate that and I assume they’ll figure it out.”

Penalty Awaits Validators Who Choose Not To Comply with the Upgrade

Talking about the necessity of compliance with the upgrade, Ioana Frincu, CTO of DeFi platform EQIFI said:

“Validators on Eth2.0 who do not cooperate with this change will be penalized… Until now, the network’s PoW consensus was based on the fact that each miner ‘worked’ for their reward. Now, with PoS, miners must figuratively ‘put their mouth where their money is.’ This means that the risk structure changes.

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“Instead of high costs to set up mining operations and mine blocks, you validate transactions and you have to have skin in the game. I welcome this measure and believe that it is a huge change for the better.”

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Danny Ryan made this known in a series of tweets on 28th September 2021. Ryan wrote, “Altair is here; the Merge is coming”, stating that the Altair consensus upgrade has been scheduled for epoch 74240 (Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC).

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The Altair consensus upgrade has been scheduled for epoch 74240 (Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC)https://t.co/spvpCzxaKo

Huge shout-out to client teams for their work on this throughout the year

Client releases coming this week.

Upgrade your nodes *next week*!

— dannyryan (@dannyryan) September 28, 2021

Back in March, Ethereum Foundation described Altair as an upgrade that gives engineering teams something concrete to dig into.

Ethereum Foundation noted:

“Altair is an upgrade to the beacon chain that brings light client support, minor patches to incentives, per-validator inactivity leak accounting, an increase in slashing severity, and cleanups to validator rewards accounting for simplified state management.

“In addition to these various features, Altair also represents a ‘warm-up upgrade’ for the beacon chain and beacon chain clients. Ethereum’s proof-of-stake system has run quite smoothly since genesis, but before performing the high-stakes merge, client teams want to go through the process of a live upgrade to further test and ready their codebases and the live system.”

After Alter upgrade, Ethereum 1.0 difficulty bomb removal will follow in December. After this, the full upgrade to proof of stake (PoS) known as The Merge will follow. This is probably happening next year with testnets coming first.

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The Merge is one of the most important aspects of the upgrade, in which miners will be completely removed to give way for validators. Due to this development, Ethereum will no longer inflate in supply by 4% a year, making the crypto asset become scarcer.

Thus, Altair is a vital upgrade in preparation for the much-awaited chains merging popularly known as The Merge.

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