Ethereum staking withdrawal testnet Zhejiang to go online Feb. 1

According to a Jan. 31 station by Ethereum Foundation developer Parithosh Jayanthi, the "Zhejiang" nationalist withdrawal trial nett volition launch connected Feb. 1 astatine 15:00 UTC. Six days aft Zhejiang, the Shanghai and Capella testnets volition besides beryllium triggered astatine epoch 1350. Jayanthi noted:

"This is besides a large accidental for each tools to trial retired however they privation to collect, show and usage the withdrawal information. You tin effort to person 0x00 credentials to 0x01 and acceptable a withdrawal address. You tin trial partial withdrawals and afloat withdrawals by exiting your validator."

The Shanghai upgrade, erstwhile afloat implemented, volition let the withdrawal of users' staked Ether (ETH) assets and rewards. Since the occurrence of the Ethereum Merge upgrade past September, users person been capable to involvement their ETH connected the proof-of-stake network. However, funds stay locked, pending a caller patch.

The Zhejiang nationalist testnet is going unrecorded time (1st of Feb 15:00 UTC, 2023). Shanghai+Capella volition beryllium triggered 6 days aboriginal (at epoch 1350). You volition beryllium capable to deposit validators, signifier BLS alteration and exit without risk. All links are here: https://t.co/XNlsDIG0cm pic.twitter.com/sKKDJmolt2

— Barnabas Busa (@BarnabasBusa) January 31, 2023

As told by chap Ethereum developer Barnabas Busa, Zhejiang volition beryllium the archetypal nationalist testnet to launch after the Merge upgrade. Although inactive successful beta, the afloat withdrawal root codification has been published to nodes.ethereum.org. 

Related: Ethereum developers people March 2023 for Shanghai hard fork

Developers astatine the Ethereum Foundation person been targeting a tentative day of March 2023 for the overmuch anticipated Shanghai hard fork. In addition, the upcoming Zhejiang testnet volition besides diagnostic each Ethereum Improvement Protocols (EIPs) included successful the Shanghai upgrade, specified arsenic timestamp-based forking. 

After Shanghai, the adjacent upgrade connected developers' roadmap is EIP-4844, to beryllium released successful May oregon June of this year. Experts accidental that EIP-4844 tin perchance summation the scalability of layer-2 rollups connected Ethereum by factors of 100x and little transaction fees.