According to a report by CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers stated at the biweekly meeting held on Thursday, January 21st, that their goal is to run Dencun on the Goerli testnet on January 17th. This highly anticipated upgrade will enable proto-danksharding (EIP-4844), reducing the cost of Layer 2 rollups and expanding Ethereum by increasing the space for “blob” data sets.
Tim Beiko, the Ethereum Foundation’s protocol support manager, stated at the meeting that Dencun will be the first major Ethereum upgrade since the earlier Shapella upgrade this year. Originally scheduled for the last quarter of 2023, it has been postponed to 2024 due to the complexity of the upgrade.
The developers also discussed the draft timeline for the Dencun test upgrade. They plan to run the Dencun upgrade on the Sepolia testnet on January 31st, followed by the Holesky testnet on February 7th, and then deploy the changes on the mainnet around the end of February. They cautioned that these schedules may change depending on the results of the testnet forks.
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