Ethereum developers have officially penciled in the long-awaited Fusaka upgrade for December 3rd, following a decision made during the network’s bi-weekly coordination call on Thursday.
The move starts the countdown to Ethereum’s second hard fork in 2025.
The Fusaka upgrade’s headline feature is PeerDAS, one of 12 enhancements included in the release. PeerDAS allows validators to verify only parts of data instead of entire “blobs”, significantly reducing bandwidth requirements and reducing costs for both validators and layer-2 networks. This will make Ethereum faster and cheaper, both for users making transactions and developers building on the network.
The decision was finalized during All Core Developers Consensus Layer (ACDC) call #168, just two days after the upgrade was successfully deployed on Hoodi, the third and final testnet, without issue.
The upgrade will be activated on the Ethereum mainnet when the blockchain reaches slot 13,164,544, which is expected to occur at 21:49 UTC on December 3rd.
“Let’s go ahead and do this,” said Alex Stokes, an Ethereum Foundation researcher leading the ACDC calls. “This was a big boost to get this together at this point, so thanks for that. It’s a really cool fork.”
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