Big Year for ETH

 

Ethereum developers are getting ready for blockchain’s biggest upgrade in a year: the Dencun upgrade.

The dates for making last changes on two key test networks have now been confirmed in a blog post. Theoretically speaking, these would be the last few steps before officially going live on the main network.

Dencun is seen as a major upgrade for the Ethereum blockchain, as it will enable “proto-danksharding” – a technical feature aimed to decrease the cost of transactions on layer 2s, as well as enabling cheaper data available on the blockchain.

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January 30th and February 7th are key dates for developers to run through a dress rehearsal of protocol changes on both the Sepolia and Holesky test networks.

 

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The above announcement follows the upgrade that took place last week on the Goerli testnet. Despite some minor hiccups, it successfully went live.

 

• Dencun will be triggered on Sepolia at 22:51 UTC and at epoch 132608.

• If all goes according to plan, the final test for Dencun will occur on Holesky on February 7th at 11:34 UTC at epoch 950272.

• After that, developers will fix a date for Dencun to hit Ethereum’s mainnet, which is now targeted for end of February or early March.

Learn more about the Dencun upgrade here.