Ethereum Developers to Launch Dencun Upgrade on Goerli Testnet on January 17th Next Year

According to a report by CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers stated at the bi-weekly meeting held on Thursday (21st) that their goal is to run Dencun on the Goerli testnet on January 17. This highly anticipated upgrade will activate proto-danksharding (EIP-4844), reducing the costs of Layer 2 rollups, and expanding Ethereum 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, developers have postponed it to 2024 due to the complexity of the upgrade. Developers also discussed the draft timeline for testing the Dencun upgrade. They plan to run the Dencun upgrade on another testnet, Sepolia, on January 31, followed by the Holesky testnet on February 7, and then deploy the changes on the mainnet around the end of February. They cautioned that these timelines may change based on the results of the testnet forks. Related article: “Ethereum’s Next Steps: Cancun Upgrade, Explosion of Layer 2 Rollup?”