Ethereum’s First Mainnet Shadow Fork Goes Live as Move to PoS Continues

The shadow fork will share some of the data with the main Ethereum network, so some transactions could appear on both chains, Jayanthi cautioned. The shadow fork has already processed 1,166,016 transactions with an average block time of 14.8 seconds as of the time of writing, according to a block explorer page shared by the developer Marius Van Der Wijden.