The Mekong devnet was meant to be a playground for wallet developers to experiment with UX changes and for stakers to gain confidence in the upcoming Pectra changes. The Pectra network upgrade has been activated on the Ethereum Sepolia and Holesky testnets. These networks can now be used to test the Pectra upgrade features. In light of this, we'd like to announce the deprecation of the Mekong testnet on 7th March, 2025. Application and tooling developers are encouraged to use Sepolia to test applications, smart contracts, and other EVM functionality. Its permissioned validator set provides a stable test environment. Alternatively, many local development environments allow for testing against copies of the Ethereum mainnet state. Stakers and infrastructure providers concerned with protocol-level testing are encouraged to wait for the Holesky testnet to finalize, or to await an announcement on the Ethereum R&D discord for an alternate testing location. For validator setup testing, stakers should also consider the Ephemery testnet. This network resets weekly and enables lightweight end-to-end testing of the validator lifecycle.
3/6/2025Introduction: shadowfork Theory: General info: A chain consists of an Execution layer(EL) and a Consensus layer(CL) The EL is responsible for state (transactions, history, etc) and the CL is responsible for consensus (agreement on chain head) at a high level The EL is driven by the CL. i.e, The CL decides what the head of the chain is and the EL must accept that decision (mostly) The CL asks the EL to produce blocks, these blocks are placed in the EL chain as well as execution_payloads in the CL slot. This links the CL slot to the EL chain (leaving out caveats here) When the CL sends the request to produce a block, it also sends information about the block to build on top of
3/5/2025(78.94%) Target correct: 1149956/1386000 (82.97%) Target timely: 1149956/1386000 (82.97%) Head correct: 1111231/1386000 (80.18%) Head timely: 918835/1386000 (66.29%) Sync committees: 12927/14336 (90.17%) Overall Network Report: ![overview-resource-use]**(https://storage.googleapis.com/ethereum-hackmd/upload_f0c32807e29183674d9b13b823de6817.pn
11/29/2024Considerations Resource use: CPU, Disk, Cost, I/O Syncing and Sync complexity increase Complexity of Implimentation and Testing Time for conversion to take place Ideological Methods Overview
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