The Ethereum Foundation issued a document stating that the Shanghai+Capella (Shapella) mainnet upgrade is entering the final pre-release sequence - the public testnet. Shapella includes many features, but most importantly for stakers and the consensus layer is support for withdrawals. Exited validators can withdraw the full amount, while active validators whose balance exceeds 32 ETH can partially withdraw. Separately, Sepolia, the first long-standing public testnet, is scheduled to undergo an upgrade on February 28.

On February 7th, Zhejiang, Ethereum’s first public withdrawal test network, successfully simulated Shanghai’s upgrade. Previously, the developer stated that after the upgrade of the Sepolia test network, it plans to release the Shanghai upgrade on the Ethereum Goerli test network at the end of February or early March. After the transition is successful, it will switch to the main network.