# Ropsten TTD Announcement

DevFeed: [Ropsten TTD Announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ropsten-ttd-announcement-17017.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/03/ropsten-merge-ttd>)

Author: EF Protocol Support

Published: 2022-06-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [Terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terminal.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [config](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/config.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consensus.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [node](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node.md>), [override](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/override.md>), [proof-of-work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proof-of-work.md>), [protocol-announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol-announcements.md>), [terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terminal.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces a Terminal Total Difficulty of 50000000000000000 for the Ropsten Merge. It instructs stakers and node operators to override the TTD in both execution and consensus layer clients before June 7, 2022, and estimates the transition for June 8-9, 2022 if hash rates remain stable.

## Source excerpt

A Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) of 50000000000000000 has been selected for the Ropsten Merge. Stakers and node operators must manually override the TTD in both their execution and consensus layer clients before June 7, 2022. Proof-of-Work testnets can have volatile hash rates and the exact timing of The Merge on...