# Ethereum's Merge Data Challenge and Mainnet Client Releases Announced

DevFeed: [Ethereum's Merge Data Challenge and Mainnet Client Releases Announced](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/finalized-no-37-17032.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/26/finalized-no-37>)

Author: Danny Ryan

Published: 2022-08-26T00:00:00Z

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>), [Blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blockchain.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blockchain.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces the Ethereum Merge Data Challenge, an open competition for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data about the pre- and post-Merge network. It also reports that mainnet Merge client releases are available and gives preparation timelines for Bellatrix and the Merge transition.

## Source excerpt

~20 days until the Merge 🚀 tl;dr The Merge Data Challenge is live! Collect, analyze, and visualize all of the data Merge Mainnet client releases are out. Did you upgrade yet?...