Ethereum completes upgrade of Dencun to Sepolia testnet

The Dencun upgrade has been deployed to 2/3 of the test network, preparing to reach the mainnet in the near future.

Ethereum completes upgrade of Dencun to Sepolia testnet

Dencunwas deployed to the Sepolia testnet in the early morning of January 31 at 5:21, this is the second successful test network afterGoerli on January 17Last.

Overall, upgrade Dencunstill going rightproposed schedulebefore. Holesky's final online test will take place next week, February 7 . Then, if it is successful, Ethereum developers will set a schedule to bring Dencun to the mainnet, expected to be around February - March.

DencunIt was initially scheduled for late 2023, but had to be delayed because there were still many technical issues, as well as insufficient readiness from many customer groups.

One expected feature that Dencun will bring is proto-danksharding, which aims to reduce gas fees and improve scalability by introducing a compressed data storage mechanism called “blobs.”

Although not yet officially launched, there has been information that Ethereum developers are discussingEthereum's next upgrade after Dencun. This upgrade is called  Prague/Electra , or  Pectra  for short - similar to how Cancun/Deneb is called Dencun for short.

Coin68 will continue to update the upcoming situation of the Dencun upgrade.