Sepolia testnet Merge mostly successful — 'Hiccups will not delay the Merge.'

cointelegraph.com:

Ethereum has now completed its second-to-last major Merge trial on the public test network Sepolia, paving the way for its transition to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.

While it's been judged mostly a success, it was not incident free.

The final trial of the Merge is set to occur on the Goerli network over the next few weeks before the official Merge on the Ethereum mainnet can be given the go ahead.

Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano, who hosted the Sepolia Merge livestream on YouTube on July 6, confirmed on Twitter that the Merge transition went through "successfully" and added that testnet will be monitored over the next few days.

Thanks to everyone who watched the Sepolia merge livestream!!The Sepolia merge transition went through successfully (and the chain finalized!) so now it's time for monitoring over the next few days.Then we merge Goerli......then mainnet The Merge is coming

Terence Tsao, an Ethereum protocol developer also said the Merge transition itself had been a success, but noted around 25-30% of validators went offline after the Merge due to “wrong configs.” However he added that “hiccups will not delay the Merge.”

Sepolia summary:- Merge transition itself was a success - 25-30% of the validators went offline shortly after the merge- The offline validators were due to wrong configs- Since then, the offline parties have updated their configs, and validators are up(cont)

Superphiz, a founding member of the ETHStaker Community cautioned during the stream however that the actual success of the Merge won’t be known “for several hours or even until tomorrow.”

The final trial will occur on the Goerli test network. Superphiz added that the timing of the Merge will depend on the reviews of the Sepolia