September 15, 2022. Ethereum cuts proof-of-work loose at block 15,537,393 and continues under proof-of-stake without breaking the ledger. The first block of the new consensus is the anchor of this hall.
The single eNAT minted from the canonical anchor block of this event.
Block #15,537,393 is outside the range covered by the indexer behind this network. The mainnet indexer may not have backfilled this height yet. The curatorial frame below remains valid regardless.
Showing no neighbouring blocks returned from the indexer.
The blocks immediately adjacent to the anchor, fetched live from the indexer. The protocol layer has thousands more in this window — this is a curated visual cut.
Burn, hash and mint state come straight from the indexer. Blocks the indexer has no record of are silently dropped from this fold.
None of the neighbouring blocks around this anchor are covered by the active indexer. Switching to a network whose indexer covers this height will populate the fold automatically.
The reason a frontend would point at this block at all.
The Merge is the cleanest example of why eDMT is built the way it is. Ethereum's identity survived a consensus swap because the ledger continued to refer to itself in the same terms. eNAT inherits that property: it points at blk numbers, not at execution clients, not at validators, not at any social fact about the chain. As long as Ethereum continues to call this block #15,537,393, the eNAT certificate keeps its referent.
The protocol layer is silent on history. The narrative is always supplied by readers.
The full timeline of curated events.
Five halls, each centered on one moment of Ethereum since the EIP-1559 fork. Order is chronological; arrangement is editorial.
