Ethereum developers are under pressure while Pectra upgrade takes place towards a new testnet following several unexpected problems which delayed its deployment to the Mainnet.
The upgrading of Pectra, which was to hit the Mainnet Ethereum in March, was deployed in the Holesky Testnet of the network on February 24. However, the upgrade did not end up the network, which prompted the developers to investigate and approach the causes.
On March 5, the update was deployed at Sepolia Testnet. However, the developers again encountered errors, which were aggravated by an unknown attacker who used an “on -board” to cause the exploitation of empty blocks.
To better prepare for upgrading, the Ethereum core developers have created a new testnet called “Hoodi”.
Ethereum developers “exhausted” from Pectra preparations
Hoodi was launched on March 17 and the Pectra upgrade will take place on Hoodi on March 26. If the upgrade takes place smoothly, Pecctra could hit the Mainnet on April 25.
In an interview with Felix NG of Cintelegraph, the member of the team for supporting the Ethereum Foundation Protocol, Nixo Rokish, said that the developers went through a lot of things when preparing Pectra upgrade. Rokish told Cintelegraph:
“I think people are nervous because we only had two consecutive fabric tests have essentially really unexpected problems that were not fundamentally linked to the way it would have been on the Mainnet.”
Rokish added that exhaustion settles, in particular for consensus layer developers, while Hoodi marks the third attempted test of Pecctra.
“I think that the developers of the consensus layer in particular, but also as somewhat the execution layers are exhausted at the moment,” Rokish told Cointelegraph.
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According to Rokish, the Holesky Testnet has failed in part because it had never been tested with such a small set validator on the canonical chain.
“As decentralized as Holesky, he has never been tested so few validators on the canonical chain,” she said.
When about 10% were left on the canonical chain, the validators overloaded their ram and their memory while they kept the state for 90% of the validators on the non -canonical chain.
Rokish said they had never seen this before. “And so the layer of consensus suddenly had this problem where they had to change a lot of things, and I think it was really tiring for them,” she said.
Despite the recent Testnet challenges, the broader development of Ethereum continues to show progress.
On March 13, 2024, the network deployed the Dencun upgrade, which implemented many changes in the blockchain.
High gas fees, which were once a huge problem for the network, have become one thing in the past. One year after its upgrading of Dencun, Ethereum gas fees dropped by 95%. On March 23, average gas prices reached historic stockings of 0.28 GWEI.
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