The Ethereum Shanghai / Capella Upgrade.
The Shanghai and Capella upgrades enable staking withdrawals on Ethereum, allowing users to unlock their staking rewards or exit from staking entirely by unlocking their full validator balance.
The target slot for this upgrade is set at 6209536. A slot occurs exactly every 12 seconds meaning the upgrade will occur on June 22nd, 2026 at roughly 11:54 PM
Current Slot
0
Target Slot
6,209,536
Remaining
6,209,536
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Beacon Deposit Contract
0x00000000219ab540356cbb839cbe05303d7705faThe Beacon deposit contract was deployed as phase 0 of ETH 2 allowing users to transfer their funds from Ethereum’s mainnet to the beacon chain for staking.
Balance
86934763.798133225176942702 ETH
Transactions
777,069 ETH
Internal TXs
1,726,008 ETH
Change since Shanghai
+68768612.629900808501195627 ETH
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