{"id":125033,"date":"2025-03-14T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125033"},"modified":"2025-03-14T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:18:22","slug":"ethereum-pushes-back-pectra-upgrade-to-conduct-third-testnet-hoodi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125033","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum pushes back Pectra upgrade to conduct third testnet \u2018Hoodi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum core developers have decided to create a third testnet, Hoodi, to better prepare for the Pectra upgrade, which has now been delayed until at least late April after the first two testnets encountered several bugs.<br \/>\nThe Hoodi testnet will launch on March 17 and the Pectra upgrade for it will be activated on March 26, Ethereum Foundation developer Tim Beiko said following the Ethereum All Core Dev Call on March 13.<br \/>\nIf Pectra runs smoothly on Hoodi without major issues, core developers could set a mainnet launch date for Pectra as soon as 30 days after Hoodi\u2019s activation, Beiko said.<br \/>\nThat would mean Pectra could go live on Ethereum mainnet as early as April 25.<br \/>\nTim Beiko\u2019s latest announcement on the Pectra upgrade: Ethereum MagiciansPectra, which combines features from the Prague and Electra proposals, will implement over 10 Ethereum Improvement Proposals mostly aimed at bringing more functionality to Ethereum wallets and improving user experience.<br \/>\nIt will also include scaling proposals to double the blob count for data availability from three to six.<br \/>\nPectra was initially slated to launch on Ethereum mainnet in late 2024 but has faced repeated delays due to client readiness issues and synchronization bugs in the first two Ethereum testnets, Holesky and Sepolia.<br \/>\nPectra was rolled out on Sepolia on March 5, but soon after, Ethereum developers started seeing error messages on their geth nodes and empty blocks being mined.<br \/>\nGalaxy Digital vice president of research Christine Kim said Hoodi would look to \u201cmimic\u201d the Ethereum mainnet as closely as possible by launching a validator set similar to how mainnet currently operates.<br \/>\nThat would see at least 20 million test staked-Ether (ETH) distributed across 11 client teams and five staking operators.<br \/>\nSource: Christine KimBeiko noted that aspects of Pectra may still be tested on Sepolia and Holesky.<br \/>\nRelated: Ethereum average gas fees drop 95% one year after the Dencun upgrade<br \/>\nThe third testnet comes as Ethereum core developers agreed to deploy future Ethereum protocol upgrades at a faster cadence during an \u201cAll Core Devs\u201d meeting on Feb. 13.<br \/>\nCrypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm also called on Ethereum core developers to ship faster protocol updates to achieve more milestones on its technical roadmap and maintain its competitive edge as a leading layer 1 blockchain.<br \/>\nMagazine: MegaETH launch could save Ethereum\u2026 but at what cost<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ethereum-pectra-upgrade-delayed-after-devs-decide-make-third-testnet?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum core developers have decided to create a third testnet, Hoodi, to better prepare for the Pectra upgrade, which has now been delayed until at least late April&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}