According to CoinDesk, ethereum developers finalized the "Shanghai upgrade" hard fork in March 2023 during the ethereum core developer meeting on Thursday, which will open the withdrawal of ETH pledged by the beacon chain, also known as EIP 4895. . The developers also agreed to address in the Shanghai upgrade the implementation of the EVM Object Format (EOF), a collection of EIPs that essentially upgrade the Ethereum Virtual Machine, the environment in which ethereum is able to execute smart contracts. These Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) are EIP 3540, EIP 3670, EIP 4200, EIP 4570, EIP 5450. If EOF seems too complex to implement at the next All Core Developers call, the developers agree to postpone EOF until the fall so that staked ETH withdrawals are not delayed. The developers also agreed to a second hard fork sometime in the fall of 2023, which will address another important scaling upgrade, proto-danksharding, also known as EIP 4844, which will make Ethereum more secure through sharding. scalability.