A tão esperada atualização do Pectra na rede Ethereum já está disponível na rede de testes Holesky. A atualização foi projetada para melhorar a escalabilidade do protocolo, mas alguns pequenos problemas surgiram durante o lançamento da rede de teste. À medida que os desenvolvedores se concentram na implantação da rede de teste, o sucesso dessa mudança determinará o próximo lançamento da rede principal em abril.
Detalhes da atualização do Ethereum Pectra Testnet
Christine Kim, pesquisadora do Galaxy on X, disse que a atualização foi ativada na Época 115.968/115.965. A atualização foi implantada no slot 3710978, e o número de validadores ativos é 1775010. A rede de teste vem com o Genesis Fork versão 0x01017000, com um valor total de Ethereum apostado de 56766401 ETH. Infelizmente, a atualização do Pectra na rede de teste Holesky ainda não foi concluída.
In context, finality is a key step in adding blocks as it ensures that confirmed transactions are immutable and irreversible. This is one of the pressing issues in the deployment of the Holesky testnet. However, as of this writing, Ethereum developers are troubleshooting the chain. The reason why transactions failed to finalize on the Holesky testnet remains uncertain.
About a year ago, the Dencun hard fork upgrade also failed to complete its initial testing phase on the Goerli testnet.
Pectra Hardfork Official Release Schedule
Meanwhile, as reported earlier by CoinGape, the deployment of this Pectra hard fork combines 11 major upgrades, consistent with the timeline previously agreed upon by developers.
During the 203rd All-Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call held in mid-January, developers agreed to initiate the upgrade from early to mid-March.
However, the lack of finality may lead to the launch plan going off track, especially if the root cause of the issues cannot be quickly determined. The initial plan was to launch the upgrade on the mainnet before mid-April, but the timeline may change.
Impact of Pectra on Ethereum Price
Market observers and analysts expect that the final debut of this hard fork will trigger a significant surge in Ethereum's price. As of the time of publication, Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, trading at $2,500.77. In the past 24 hours, Ethereum's market cap shrank by 11.2% as the overall market declined.
However, cryptocurrency analyst CryptoGoos earlier predicted in an ETH price analysis that the token could reach $10,000. This cryptocurrency enthusiast pointed out that ETH has followed Bitcoin's lead before a massive surge.
CryptoGoos's prediction aligns with that of Crypto King. Another analyst noted, 'ETH will break through $10,000.'
Notable cryptocurrency expert CryptoCaesar has also stated that Ethereum will break through $6,000. These predictions form the basis for the hypothesis that Ethereum may be approaching a bottom price.