Fusaka, the next upgrade to Ethereum, approached a live show on the main blockchain after successfully testing it on the Holesky test network early on Wednesday.
The Fusaka Hardfork comes just a few months after Ethereum’s major Pectra upgrade and is designed to use Ethereum to make things cheaper for the agency. One of the changes I’ll be introducing is Peerdas. This is a feature that allows you to see only a portion of the data you need, rather than a complete chunk (“blob”) that helps to reduce the costs of both the Fallier-2 network and the validator.
Test networks like Holesky act as practice grounds where developers can safely test new code before they reach the actual chain. Holesky, launched in 2023, was particularly important as its validator setup closely reflects the mainnet of Ethereum. However, over the past few months, Holesky has begun to show signs of age and reliability issues. Fusaka is the last upgrade where the network will appear before closing. This is two weeks after Fusaka started live on Mainnet.
The next two testnet runs are scheduled for October 14th and 28th. Once they’re done, Ethereum developers will lock the date of the release of Fusaka’s Full Mainnet.
“Holsky has become a great first step towards Fusaka on the mainnet and a more chunk of Ethereum,” Parisosh Jayanti, Devop’s engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, said in X.
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