Odaily Planet Daily News Ethereum core developers plan to end support for the Holesky testnet in September 2025 and are preparing for its role transition and eventual deprecation. Abandoning test networks is a common practice. Ethereum developers previously stopped Kiln, Ropsten, and Rinkeby in 2022 and Goerli last year. Holesky, launched in September 2023, is one of Ethereum's two main testnets, the other being Sepolia. It has been a key public testnet for staking, infrastructure, and protocol development.
In addition, the new testnet Hoodi has been launched and will launch the Pectra network upgrade on March 26, ahead of the expected second quarter mainnet launch. The foundation added that future staking operators and infrastructure providers should use Hoodi for validator testing. (The Block)