Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade is live on the Sepolia testnet.
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Deploying Dencun on Sepolia It has begun It was on Tuesday at 22:51 UTC confirmed Right away. “There is now a blob running through Sepolia,” wrote Parithosh Jayanthi, DevOps engineer at the Ethereum Foundation. post on X. “Uneventful testnet forks are the best!”
Ethereum core developers have deployed an upgrade. Görli Testnet Early this month. The start of the upgrade for the third and final testnet, Holesky, is scheduled for February 7th. Following the third successful testnet deployment, the Ethereum team is expected to set a mainnet launch date for Dencun.
Among the features Dencun is expected to bring are: Proto-danshardingWe aim to lower gas fees and improve scalability by introducing a new compressed data storage mechanism called “BLOB”.
“A blob-carrying transaction is similar to a regular transaction, except that it also carries an additional piece of data called a blob,” said Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. community descriptor. “Blobs are very large (~125kB) and can be much cheaper than a similar amount of call data.”
Ethereum’s last major upgrade, Chapellatook place in March 2023, allowing users and validators to withdraw ETH staked on the network.
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