# Amphora Workshop Advances Ethereum's Transition to Proof of Stake

DevFeed: [Amphora Workshop Advances Ethereum's Transition to Proof of Stake](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/amphora-a-major-merge-milestone-16982.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/15/amphora-merge-milestone>)

Author: Tim Beiko

Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackathon.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [pos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pos.md>), [pow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pow.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The Amphora workshop brought Ethereum execution- and consensus-layer client teams together to resolve specification issues and reach milestones toward The Merge. The milestones progressed from implementing the merge specification to increasingly complex devnets and PoW-to-PoS transition testing.

## Source excerpt

Earlier this year, the Rayonism hackathon kicked off to protoype the architecture for Ethereum's transition to proof of stake. The transition, often refered to as The Merge, will keep the existing beacon chain (eth2) and execution layer (eth1) clients, and "merge" both chains by making the beacon chain drive the...