Ethereum client developers confirmed that the expected Dencun update will not be activated on the mainnet by the end of 2023. Blockworks reports.
During the All Core Developers teleconference, a Prysm team member nicknamed Potuz pointed to persistent consensus issues in developer testnets. Over the past months, the team has deployed ten such solutions to test the upgrade.
“We will by no means fork the mainnet in 2023,” Potuz expressed the general sentiment.
The hard fork envisions updates for both levels — consensus (Deneb) and execution (Cancun).
Unlike the execution-layer teams, the execution-clients developers said they are already ready to test the update on the public Goerli testnet.
Potuz did not support this idea:
“I definitely feel uncomfortable having a full client fork on Goerli. I see that in our branch there are still very large and deep changes.”
It is planned that the eleventh devnet, smaller than its predecessors, will be launched. The move to main testnets has been postponed at least until the Ethereum Developers Conference in Istanbul, which will take place in mid-November.
In September, Holesky testnet launch, which should replace Goerli. The new testnet is intended to play an important role in implementing Dencun, providing tighter conditions for validating the upgrade.
Timed to the anniversary of The Merge on September 15, start Holesky did not go smoothly. Due to a glitch, the Ethereum team delayed the launch by two weeks. In light of the delay, the community has formed the view that activation of Dencun this year is unlikely.
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