Ethereum is undergoing an overhaul. Since The Merge, the most popular blockchain in the world has continued to alternate updates within its ecosystem. In some months, a hard fork called “Dencun” will take place at Ethereum. And it will not fail to impact Goerli, its famous testnet network.
Goerli, soon abandoned by Ethereum developers
Ethereum has already experienced delays with The Merge, Holesky and Dencun. Concerning Dencun, an update which was to take place this month, the devnets reported several anomalies including the existence of recurring malfunctions, invalid blocks and also frequent blockages. So it turns out impossible to implement a hard fork on the blockchain for the year 2023.
“ Dencun will be the last fork deployed on Goerli and the client and tester teams will leave their validators in the months following its activation.
You should migrate to another network before that.
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In this blog post, the Ethereum team clarified that the client and EF testing teams will no longer support Goerli in the near future. This first multi-client test network will no longer be able to accommodate other large-scale projects apart from the upgrade of the Dencun network.
To do this, Ethereum has established a deadline for the attention of validators :
- three months after activation of Goerli Dencun;
- or one month after activation of the Dencun mainnet.
Therefore, they are invited to move well before these two dates, although this will certainly affect the stability of the network. An alternative network was offered to them for the occasion:
“ Application and tool developers are encouraged to use Sepolia to test decentralized applications, smart contracts and other EVM features. Its set of authorized validators provides a stable testing environment », We can read on the site.
For stakers and infrastructure providers, the freshly deployed Holesky testnet seems most suitable. And for stakers considering testing a validator setup, the Ethereum team encourages the use of the Ephemery testnet.
“ This network resets every week and allows end-to-end testing of the validator lifecycle “, they continued.
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