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 December 27th, 2025 at roughly 11:19 AM
Current Slot
0
Target Slot
6,209,536
Remaining
6,209,536
0
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0
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0
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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
74580333.67208887569537452 ETH
Transactions
733,399 ETH
Internal TXs
1,614,671 ETH
Change since Shanghai
+56414182.503856459019627445 ETH
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