The 118th Ethereum ACDC Conference: Dencun mainnet activation may not be carried out this year due to the failure of Holesky testnet launch

Odaily Planet Daily News Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, issued a document summarizing the 118th Ethereum Core Developer Consensus Conference (ACDC). This meeting mainly discussed Devnet-9 preparations and changes to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL). Devnet-9 is the second testnet and includes the full set of code changes in the Dencun upgrade. Devnet-9 will be the first testnet to activate EIP-7514 and EIP-7516. These two new EIPs were added to the Dencun upgrade at the executive layer meeting last week. Parithosh Jayanthi, a DevOps engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, said that his team will launch Devnet-9 on September 27; EL and CL client teams such as Lodestar, EthereumJS, Lighthouse, and Geth have confirmed that they are ready for this testnet release. In addition, the developers also discussed the deployment strategy of EIP-4788, deploying trusted settings for EIP 4844 on Devnet-9, etc. Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko raised questions about the Dencun test schedule, saying that if the developers are not sure about releasing Dencun on the public testnet before Devconnect, the Ethereum developers conference in November 2023, then Dencun’s mainnet activation is likely It won't happen this year. Previously, Tim Beiko suggested launching Dencun on these testnets in the order of Holesky, Goerli, and Sepolia. However, since Holesky failed to launch on September 15 and will be relaunched on September 28, Jayanthi proposed to launch Dencun on Goerli first, and then Then launch it on Holesky. Because Goerli is a testnet that is about to be deprecated, this means that developers are free to try to modify the Dencun specification. Tim Beiko and Del Fante agreed to test Dencun on Goerli before Holesky, and many developers also agreed to release Dencun on the public test network before Devconnect. According to previous news on September 17, blockchain tools and infrastructure developer Nethermind said that developers will re-launch Holesky within a week, with the planned time being September 22, Ethereum developer Michael Sproul revealed in a GitHub pull request The re-launch time is expected to be September 28.