Ethereum’s Holesky Hits Finality After 2 Weeks as Pectra Testing Continues

Ethereum’s Holesky testnet yet reached finality connected Monday, astir 2 weeks aft the Pectra upgrade went live.

Epoch 119,090 sealed the woody astatine astir 19:00 UTC, with implicit two-thirds of validators validating the network. An epoch is simply a play of clip erstwhile a circumstantial fig of blocks is completed connected the blockchain.

Finality, which locks transactions irreversibly wrong 2 epochs, oregon astir 13 minutes, had been absent since Feb. 24 owed to a configuration bug successful the lawsuit software, not the Pectra upgrade itself.

Restoration efforts implicit the past weeks enabled this recovery. Developers are present stabilizing nodes and pruning aged states to afloat revive the testnet for Pectra testing.

The Sepolia testnet, besides moving Pectra, achieved finality but aboriginal faced bare blocks from a flawed deposit contract. An attacker exploited this by sending zero-token transfers, Ethereum developers noted, an contented aboriginal resolved by lawsuit teams.

The Pectra upgrade introduces cardinal enhancements specified arsenic state payments successful non-ETH tokens, relationship abstraction, and higher staking limits.