Ethereum’s next upgrade, Fusaka, only approached live on the main blockchain after a The successful run to the test On the holesky test network early Wednesday.
Fusaka Hard Fork just came a few months after Ethereum’s Main PECTRA UPGRADE and designed to make things cheaper for institutions using Ethereum. One of its changes Introduced PeerdasA feature that allows validators to check only the part of the data required instead of full chunks (“blobs”), which helps cut costs for both layer-2 networks and validators.
Testing networks such as holesky act as skills basis where developers can safely try the new code before it reaches the real chain. The holesky, which was launched in 2023, was particularly important because the validator setup was closely reflected in Ethereum’s mainnet. But over the past few months, holesky began to show age signs and reliability issues. Fusaka is the last upgrade that the network will see before it falls – two weeks after Fusaka lives on Mainnet.
The next one Two testnets are running has been scheduled for October 14 and 28. After they are complete, Ethereum developers will be locked on a date for the full launch of Fusaka Mainnet.
“Hollesky ends! A great first step toward Fusaka in Mainnet and more Blobs at Ethereum,” Ethereum Foundation Engineer Parithosh Jayanthi said in x.
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