Ethereum’s next upgrade, Fusaka, moved just closer to going live on the main block after a successful test run on Holeky Test Network early Wednesday.
Fusaka Hard Fork comes just a few months after Ethereum’s largest pectra upgrade and is designed to make things cheaper for institutions using Ethereum. One of the changes it introduces is Peerdas, a feature that lets validators only control some of the necessary data instead of full chunks (“blobs”) that help reduce the cost of both LAG-2 networks and validators.
Test networks such as Holeky function as practices where developers can safely test new code before it reaches the right chain. Holeky, launched in 2023, was especially important because its validator setup closely mirrors Ethereum’s mainnet. But over the past few months, Holeky has begun to show signs of age and reliability problems. Fusaka is the last upgrade that the network will see before it shuts down – two weeks after Fusaka goes live on Mainnet.
The next two test networks -runs are scheduled for October 14 and 28. After they finish, Ethereum developers will lock a date of Fusaka’s full mainnet launch.
“Holeky ended! A fantastic first step towards Fusaka on Mainnet and to several clatter at Ethereum,” said the Ethereum Foundation Devops Engineer Parithosh Jayanthi on X.
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