Ethereum developers start “hoodi” network for testing the pectra innovations
- Hoodi will concentrate on testing validator exits and thus fix the restrictions that exist in the Ethereum Holesky test network due to a backlog in the exit maintenance queue.
- The pectra upgrade, which is intended to improve the scalability and user-friendliness of Ethereum, is expected to be activated on Hoodi on April 25 in the Mainset after a 30-day test phase.
The Ethereum Foundation announced that the developers will start a new “Hoodi” test network in the coming week. The announcement came during the developer’s conference on Thursday. This special campaign had become necessary because the start of the PECTRA upgrade on the Holesky test network had recently had problems with the finality.
Coping with the challenges in the Holesky testnet
The Holesky Testnet serves as a test environment before the PECTRA upgrade is transferred to the Ethereum Mainnet. Due to a configuration error while activating the PECTRA upgrade, a loss of finality occurred two weeks ago. Although the network regained its finality on Monday, it remains partially restricted and not fully functional for all research activities.
During yesterday’s developer call discuss The Ethereum researchers and developers about the solution of the problem, which was created by the problematic Holesky and Sepolia hardforks, as described in our previous article. During the discussions that took place last week, the team also considered implementing a “Shadow Forks” of the Holesky test network in order to further examine the expected PECTRA upgrade.
After the telephone conference on Thursday, the developers decided to start a new test network called Hoodi instead of watching alternative suggestions. The Hoodi-Testnet will serve as a dedicated network for Ethereum researchers to test the existence of validators, a function that is not available at Holesky due to a backlog in the exit maintenance queue. In the meantime, Holesky and Sepolia will continue to tackle other research priorities. In the protocol of yesterday’s session it says:
This option was chosen to avoid that customer teams write custom code in order to empty the Holesky-WARTSCHLANG, which could lead to other mistakes and delay the work on pectra loans and fusaka implementations.
Ethereum Pectra Upgrade aims at April Mainnet activation
The highly awaited PECTRA-upgrade aims to improve the user-friendliness and scalability of Ethereum through several important innovations. This includes reducing the costs of data availability by expanding “Blob” transactions for layer 2 solutions, the increase in staking limits and the introduction of the account abstraction to expand the possibilities of smart contracts and wallets.
The upgrade could go into operation on April 25th in Ethereum-Mainnet, about 30 days after the planned introduction to the newly launched Hoodi-Testnet. The Ethereum Foundation has provided considerable resources for the Hoodi-Testnet and plans to operate it with a number of validators compared to the Ethereum in Munich to ensure comprehensive tests.
The ETH course has recently been under strong sales pressure and has fallen under the $ 2,000 mark, with a further decline in $ 1,500 threatening. The successful implementation of the PECTRA upgrade in the MIANNET would be crucial to stop the downward trend.
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