Ethereum’s Holesky Testnet Achieves Finality After Two Weeks of Issues
Ethereum's Holesky testnet achieved finality on Monday, following the Pectra upgrade that went live nearly two weeks prior.
- Finality was confirmed at epoch 119,090 with over two-thirds of validators participating.
- The absence of finality since February 24 was due to a configuration bug, not the Pectra upgrade.
- Development efforts focused on stabilizing nodes and pruning old states to restore the testnet for Pectra testing.
- The Sepolia testnet also implemented Pectra but encountered issues with empty blocks from a flawed deposit contract, which were resolved.
- Pectra introduces enhancements including gas payments in non-ETH tokens, account abstraction, and increased staking limits.