There end of Goerli, the Ethereum test network favorable to dApps experiments, is close. Before deleting it permanently, Ethereum clients set up a more efficient substitute, Holesky. Launched on September 15, this new testnet made a resounding flop. According to the latest news, Holesky will be back on its feet soon.
In short
- Ethereum Holesky test network to be restarted after technical outages are fixed
- Holesky was launched on September 15, the same day as The Merge
Ethereum victim of Holesky’s failure?
With Holesky, Ethereum focused on form instead of content. Its developers found it useful toassociate the launch date of the testnet of this Goerli replacement with the anniversary date of the Merge. But Holesky doesn’t even seem ready to serve.
“ Holesky’s genesis didn’t go as planned, but that’s what testnets are there for.
See you soon everyone. »
Crypto News, who picked up this tweet, confirmed that there had been problems during the initial deployment of Holesky on September 15. The idea of ​​associating the advent of this device with the first anniversary of The Merge was therefore completely screwed up.
According to Christine Kim, a researcher at Galaxy, the Holesky testnet recently launched by Ethereum developers encountered “ major problems » caused by network configuration errors.
And yet, the entire Ethereum team seemed confident in the Holesky deployment. Announced by the Ethereum Foundation since August, this new tool, whose name was inspired by the Prague Holešovice Station (best bitcoin student in all of Europe), must please the network’s developers.
Tim Beiko, contributor to the Ethereum Foundation, mentioned an envelope of 1.6 billion ETH testnet intended to supply Holesky tokens. With such an important capital, this Ethereum testnet would certainly interest network developers.
“ There was some concern about customers’ ability to handle this (10x mainnet supply!), but with devnets regularly using a 10B supply, everyone was on board to move on. ‘before with the 1.6 billion proposed. A state of genesis for the network will be shared! “, does he have shared on (formerly Twitter).
Ethereum, goodbye Goerli!
What do you know about Goerli? In fact, Goerli refers to an Ethereum testnet on which developers and users of decentralized applications (dApps) based on Ethereum can experiment with their project. Of all the available Ethereum test networks (Rinkeby, Ropsten and Kovan), Goerli is the largest.
As a reminder, the move to Goerli’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism took place in August 2022. And it served as the host infrastructure for the Shanghai upgrade.
Except that Ethereum developers decided to abandon Goerli for a more optimized testnet, Holesky. According to official communications, Goerli will no longer be functional from 2024.
From this date, dApp developers keen to experiment with their projects without having to pay a lot of ETH will have to move towards Holeksy.
Once deployed, Holesky will allow access to a multitude of business-friendly resources. testing of crypto applications and smart contracts before their final deployment on the Ethereum mainnet or on networks compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
Regarding this Holesky fiasco, it reminds us of Shibarium, Shiba Inu’s layer 2 Ethereum blockchain. Its launch had to be done in a hurry to the point of ending in a breakdown causing the blocking of around 2 million dollars of ETH on the bridge before becoming functional again.
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