According to CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers stated at the bi-weekly meeting held on Thursday (21st) that their goal is to activate Dencun on the Goerli testnet on January 17. This highly anticipated upgrade will enable proto-danksharding (i.e., EIP-4844), reducing the cost of Layer 2 rollups and expanding Ethereum’s capacity by increasing the space for “blob” data sets.
Tim Beiko, the Ethereum Foundation’s protocol support manager, stated at the meeting that Dencun will be the first significant Ethereum upgrade since the earlier Shapella upgrade this year. Originally scheduled for the last quarter of 2023, the upgrade has been postponed to 2024 due to the complexity of the engineering work.
Developers also discussed a draft timeline for the Dencun test upgrade, planning to run the Dencun upgrade on the Sepolia testnet on January 31, on the Holesky testnet on February 7, and deploy the changes on the mainnet around the end of February. They cautioned that these schedules may change based on the results of the testnet forks.
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