Ethereum • February 28, 2019, 2:52PM EST

Ethereum's Constantinople and St. Petersburg upgrade is live

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Ethereum's latest upgrade, Constantinople and St. Petersburg, went live at block 7,280,000. 

According to Ethernodes.org, just 21.9 percent of Geth and Parity clients have upgraded their software to the Constantinople-compatible version. 

The upgrade, which was initially scheduled for Jan. 16, contains 4 EIPs: 145, 1014, 1052, and 1234. 

Block times are expected to return to ~15 seconds, having risen to an average of ~20 seconds over the last month due to the increasing effects of the difficulty bomb.