{"id":88577,"date":"2023-12-22T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88577"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:55:07","slug":"ethereum-developers-set-dencun-hard-fork-dates-for-testnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-developers-set-dencun-hard-fork-dates-for-testnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum developers set Dencun hard fork dates for testnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum blockchain team <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7amkZxKobX4\\\">carry out the Dencun hard fork<\/a> on test networks in the first two months of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Tim Beiko, the project lead, if everything goes as planned, deployments are expected on the following schedule:<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\\n<\/p>\n<li>January 17 on Goerli;<\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<li>January 30 on Sepolia;<\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<li>February 7 on Holesky.<\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\"><p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>\\&#8221;Obviously, if we encounter a serious problem or something crazy earlier, we can always cancel the process. Ideally, we will publish a blog post about the fork somewhere within the week of January 8, so that people have at least a week to upgrade,\\&#8221; Beiko added.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>After a successful launch on the test nets, Dencun will be deployed to the mainnet by the end of February.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Initially the hard fork was scheduled for Q4 2023, but the developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-team-delays-dencun-hard-fork-to-2024\">pushed back<\/a> it to the next year, citing persistent issues with consensus.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Dencun is the update that implements the <span data-descr=\\\"Ethereum Improvement Proposal \u2014 proposal for improving Ethereum\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">EIP<\/span>-4844. It includes the option <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.eip4844.com\/\\\">Proto-Danksharding<\/a>, intended to scale the network by creating a new type of transaction for large data blobs. It is expected to reduce fees for <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">L2 solutions<\/a> based on the technology <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-rollups-and-how-do-they-scale-ethereum\">Rollups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The hard fork envisages overhaul of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-team-has-preliminarily-prepared-the-deneb-upgrade-package\">consensus<\/a> (Deneb) and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-developers-approve-details-of-the-dencun-upgrade\">execution<\/a> (Cancun) layers.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In September, the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-team-restarts-holesky-testnet-after-outage\">Holesky testnet launch<\/a> took place, which is intended to replace Goerli. The testnet is designed to play a key role in implementing Dencun, providing stricter conditions for validating the upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>As ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-on-ethereums-roadmap\">explained<\/a> in educational cards about the Ethereum roadmap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum blockchain team will carry out the Dencun hard fork on test networks in the first two months of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,268],"class_list":["post-88577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-hardfork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88579,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88577\/revisions\/88579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}