Ethereum is discontinuing Goerli Testnet support in conjunction with the Dencun upgrade, which serves as the definitive implementation.
On Thursday, November 30th, the Ethereum development team declared that the client and Ethereum Foundation testing teams will no longer provide support for the multi-client testnet Goerli.
Ethereum Duncun Upgrade
The Dencun upgrade will be the last and definitive implementation, resulting in the teams’ eventual departure of validators either one month after Dencun mainnet activation or three months after Goerli Dencun activation.
Users who depend on Goerli for stable testnet environments have been advised by the Ethereum Foundation to migrate beforehand.
Potential stability challenges may arise due to the departure of validators from client and testing teams, which comprise a substantial stake majority, despite the permissionless nature of Goerli staking.
Simultaneously, teams intend to utilize this transition to test delayed finality, inactivity leaks, and mass-slashings.
Although Goerli is presumed to be the first testnet to implement the Dencun upgrade, the date will be disclosed by the Ethereum team soon.
Goerli, embodying the collaborative ethos of the Ethereum community, was initiated and maintained by a diverse group of individuals solving technical challenges and inadvertently building a thriving community.
What Shall Developers and Stakers Do?
Developers are strongly encouraged by the Ethereum Foundation to utilize Sepolia as a platform to test decentralized applications, smart contracts, and various other functionalities of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
Sepolia’s permissioned validator set offers a stable testing environment.
Alternatively, various local development environments facilitate testing against Ethereum mainnet state replicas.
Stakers and infrastructure providers specializing in protocol-level testing may wish to delve deeper into the Holesky testnet, which was recently introduced and allows any user to execute a validator.
The Ephemery testnet provides a weekly reset feature for validator configuration testing, which facilitates end-to-end, lightweight testing of the validator lifecycle.
Several upgrades have significantly developed The Ethereum blockchain network over the years.
The forthcoming series of ETH upgrades will concentrate primarily on scalability enhancements.
Danksharding emerges as the forthcoming substantial Ethereum upgrade, capitalizing on the scalability of the Ethereum network through the utilization of distributed data sampling.
This development is of utmost importance in promoting decentralization and enhancing scalability by efficiently managing massive datasets produced by layer2 rollups.
The preliminary stage, Proto-danksharding or EIP-4844, will occur before the full deployment of danksharding.
Furthermore, temporary data blobs are introduced via proto-danksharding to guarantee their uninterrupted transmission.
The full implementation of danksharding is expected to be concluded by the beginning of 2024.
As of press time, the price of ETH has increased by 3%, approaching $2,100, in anticipation of the SEC’s review of Fidelity’s spot Ethereum ETF.
