First phase of Metropolis was activated in the testnet of Ethereum
Humanitarian aid, identity cards, network for supply chains, market prediction tool and decentralized communications platform; Ethereum has developed as a multidisciplinary blockchain that increasingly bets on new industries with the aim of revolutionizing their effectiveness. However, to achieve this without weakening its infrastructure, the Ethereum Foundation has agreed that it is necessary to implement a second bifurcation called Metropolis, which will take place this week in September.
According to a recent publication by the Go Ethereum team at GitHub, the first tests of Ethereum's second hard fork are just around the corner. Metropolis will consist of 2 separate phases that will be put into operation in the test network of this blockchain. The first stage will be called Byzantine and will be integrated in the testnet Ropsten in the block 1,700,000, event that occurred yesterday.
Metropolis is a bifurcation that proposes improvements in the anonymity sector, as well as simplify the programming processes, increase the security of the network and postpone the addition of a pump of difficulty in order to make more difficult the processing of data in the chain of blocks. In this way, the Ethereum community seeks to offer a more efficient and robust infrastructure that can be commercialized at the corporate level.
In this regard, it should be noted that Ethereum's blockchain has grown considerably thanks to the ecosystem of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, a platform that connects around 500 conglomerates around the world - including JP Morgan and BBVA - and developers from all countries, as well as unleashing an unprecedented wave of adoption across nations and agencies interested in DLT.
In view of the scale of this program, the group after Ethereum has long wanted to improve the reliability, security and scalability properties of the decentralized network. The Byzantine stage is the first stage and is planned to be a technological solution that limits and reduces illegal actions:
The denomination of this stage comes from a computational frame known as "Problem of the Byzantine Generals", that refers to how a group of nodes obtains the consensus in the network taking into account the premise that certain actors have bad intentions and are able to influence negatively through the nodes. As the Ethereum Foundation has no control over the individual decisions of certain actors, Metropolis designed to avoid or minimize what bad actors are capable of doing.
On the other hand, Metropolis will also be a bifurcation that gives priority to the theme of the scalability with the objective of enhancing it. If the tests of this first stage go as planned, then phase 2 of Metropolis could take effect on October 9.