As per the current schedule, the Ropsten testnet shall undergo The Merge upgrade next month on June 8.
The Ethereum Foundation has also doubled the rewards for its bug bounty program taking the ceiling to $500,000.

Ethereum developers have been gearing up for the much-awaited upgrade – The Merge – on the Ethereum blockchain network. As per the latest update, on June 8, the Ropsten testnet shall undergo the upgrade to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus. 
The Merge upgrade basically seeks to switch Ethereum from the existing Proof-of-Work to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. This will make the Ethereum blockchain more scalable and environmentally friendly. 
In the ETH-clients GitHub repository on Monday, May 18, the configuration code appeared, meant for upgrading the testnet. Last month, the Ethereum developers already conducted a shadow fork to start testing how the switch from PoW to PoS would work. 
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as per plan with Ethereum Foundatio

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