Ethereum Introduced “Devnet 2” Before The Shanghai Upgrade

Key Points:

• Before the Shanghai upgrade of Ethereum, Ethereum has announced a new developer network.
• In the following weeks, developers plan to perform a shadow fork of Shanghai on the mainnet.

Ethereum has launched a new developer network known as “devnet 2” to assist client teams in preparing for the impending Shanghai upgrade.

The devnet arrives just a few months after Ethereum developers kicked off devnet 1 in November. Devnet 2 was launched on January 11, according to Ben Edgington, product lead of the Teku client team, during the most recent Ethereum consensus layer (CL) conference.

The devnet was created largely to test and identify flaws in software for the Shanghai upgrade, which will enable users to withdraw bitcoin staked using validators. This functionality, which is now unavailable, will be enabled on the mainnet in March, allowing users to access their staked coins that were rendered temporarily inaccessible during the transition known as “The Merge” in September.

As part of the dress rehearsals for the Shanghai upgrade, developers are also planning a shadow fork of Shanghai on the Ethereum mainnet in the coming weeks. A shadow fork is a test run on a version of the mainnet to see if the code will operate on the real blockchain.

The Ethereum engineer on the Geth client team, Marius Van Der Wijden, claims that the shadow fork will add complexity to the testing that will take place in Shanghai, which will make it more comparable to the release that will take place in March. According to Van Der Wijden, “The shadowfork will simply add more burden to the test – more transactions, more state, and so on.”

The developers are also considering releasing a public test network for the Shanghai update by the end of February. This would enable staking companies to test out the Shanghai upgrade before it is officially released.

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