Metis announced that it will activate a hard fork at approximately the 16,500,000th block in about 7 days to complete the second phase of its decentralized sorter upgrade. In the first phase, Metis added multiple nodes to the sorter pool and introduced sorter rotation, greatly improving the network's anti-censorship capabilities and activity. The second phase of this upgrade will introduce features such as multiple transactions within a single block, transaction pools, and sorter rewards, making Metis the first Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution to achieve decentralized sorting.