April 12, 2023. The Shanghai + Capella upgrade activates withdrawals for staked ETH. Block 17,034,870 marks the first epoch in which validators can leave. The chain's economic membrane becomes two-way.
The single eNAT minted from the canonical anchor block of this event.
Block #17,034,870 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.
Shapella made staked ETH liquid for the first time. It is also a clean example of an upgrade that changed economic surface area without altering the ledger's referential meaning. eDMT pages do not display "Shapella" anywhere on the protocol layer; this hall is purely a reading aid for humans who want to map blk numbers to their own memory of the chain.
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.
