Ethereum's latest major Upgrade Denkun went live on the Sepolia test network on Tuesday, leaving just one testnet left before the anticipated “proto-dunksharding” feature becomes a reality.
Deploying Denc to Sepolia started Tuesday at 22:51 UTC completed very soon. “Blobs are now flowing to Sepolia,” Parisosh Jayanti, a DevOps engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, said in an article. post “A problem-free testnet fork is the best!”
Ethereum core developers are encouraged to upgrade gelli test net Early this month. The launch of the third and final testnet Holesky upgrade is scheduled for February 7th. After the successful deployment of the third testnet, the Ethereum team plans to set a launch date for his Dencun mainnet.
One of the features Dencun plans to bring is: protodunk shardingIt aims to reduce gas bills and improve scalability by introducing a new compressed data storage mechanism called “BLOB”.
“Transactions that carry BLOBs are similar to regular transactions, except that they also carry additional data called BLOBs,” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in an article. community explainer. “BLOBs are very large (approximately 125 KB), so they can be much cheaper than a similar amount of call data.”
Ethereum's last major upgrade, Shaperawhich took place in March 2023, allowing users and validators to withdraw their staked ETH on the network.
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