Dencun Upgrade Goes Live on Ethereum’s Goerli Testnet After Brief Delay

• The Dencun upgrade would reduce the cost of transactions on Ethereum layer 2s.
• Implementation on the Sepolia testnet is scheduled for January 30th.

“Cancun-Deneb” or “Dencun,” the latest Ethereum network upgrade, has reportedly gone live on the Goerli testnet as of January 17th, according to a post by Ethereum developer Parithosh Jayanthi. The upgrade was postponed for around four hours due to an error, according to Jayanthi. The network got back up once this issue was rectified with a patch.

Developers have said that the Dencun upgrade, if deployed on the mainnet, would considerably reduce the cost of transactions on Ethereum layer 2s like Optimism, Base, Polygon, and others. Along with enabling additional bridge and staking pool capabilities, it will also restrict self-destruct activities.

Swift Implementation of Solution

Developer Tim Beiko of Ethereum claims that the fork took place at about 6 am UTC. Sometime later, Beiko said that the network had experienced a “chain split” as a result of lack of finalization.

Subsequently, Terence.eth exposed a flaw in the Prysm Ethereum implementation that prevented it from syncing with other nodes. According to Jayanthi, the network started functioning normally again after the problem was identified and fixed. According to Jayanthi, the efficiency of the team’s debugging methods was shown by the swift implementation of the solution.

Implementation on the Sepolia testnet is scheduled for January 30th, according to Dencun’s testing timeline, marking its next major milestone. Next up on February 7th is the Holesky testnet. A date for the upgrade’s implementation on the mainnet has not been disclosed yet by the team.

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