Ethereum devs eye January for Dencun testing
Ethereum Foundation Developers set tentative dates for a major upgrade to scale crypto’s biggest altcoin blockchain. During a biweekly call, developers disclosed that Jan. 17 is a possible date for testing the Dencun upgrade on Goerli’s testnet. Dencun was delayed past Q4 2023 due to technical difficulties building its code. The upgrade, known as EIP-4844, aims to increase blockchain space for data blobs and slash layer-2 rollup fees by activating proto-danksharding. This data storage expansion should scale Ethereum’s blockchain, enabling more transaction capacity without hiking gas fees. You might also like: Ethereum’s dominance to persist despite Solana’s investor appeal, Coinbase says Barring any disruption and assuming Dencun successfully tests on Goerli, devs plan to upgrade Sepolia’s testnet by Jan. 31 and Holesky’s network by Feb. 7. These forks represent the largest test chains on Ethereum. The final soft target for shipping Dencun to the mainnet was se...