Ethereum Foundation said it will stop running the Goerli validator after 3 months of upgrading Dencun and deploying it to testnet or 1 month later to mainnet.
Ethereum's Goerli testnet will stop working after the Dencun upgrade
According to a recent announcement from the Ethereum Foundation, Goerli - the most commonly used test network by Ethereum developers, will end its lifecycle in the next few months.
The Ethereum Foundation said that it will stop running Goerli validators 3 months after the Goerli Dencun Fork or 1 month after the Dencun mainnet Fork. Developers of application are recommended to migrate to the Sepolia test network, Stake and basic developers are recommended to…
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Specifically, the Ethereum Foundation and customer groups will stop supporting Goerli after 3 months of upgrading Dencun and deploying it to the testnet or 1 month later to the mainnet, depending on Dencun's undetermined schedule.
Ethereum Foundation notes that exiting Goerli's validator will more or less affect the stability of the network. Through this, the team also wants to check the delay and leakage level when minimizing a large number of validators.
Meanwhile, EF encourages developers to switch to Sepolia, while infrastructure providers switch to the new testnet Holesky .
Goerli is currently expected to be the first testnet to enable the Dencun upgrade. The team said they will soon announce a specific time.
Thus, Goerli is the next testnet to be "killed" by Ethereum after Ropsten at the end of 2022 and Rinkeby in mid-2023. With the continuous development of Ethereum, test networks are required to also be changed to become more suitable.
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