BCGAME - Free 5BTC Daily Bonus!Blockchain developers Ethereum (ETH) have announced the introduction of a temporary testnet called Mekong for the Pectra upgrade. The purpose of the testnet is to perform some testing of specific code changes before they are implemented on other public testnets and eventually on the mainnet.
In a statement, blockchain developers explained that the Mekong testnet aims to explore the impacts of planned changes to the network.
“After reviewing the Pectra fork, a successful interoperability event, and four devnets, we are now launching the first short-lived Pectra testnet: Mekong!” the developers wrote in a anúncio official.
According to the developers, the Mekong testnet includes all the EIPs proposed for the upcoming Pectra fork on Ethereum. These changes include UX changes via EIP-7702, staking changes via EIP-7251, deposit and exit mechanism changes via EIP-6110/EIP-7002, and more.
“Mekong is intended to be a playground for wallet developers to experiment with UX changes and for stakers to gain confidence in the changes to come. The testnet will be short-lived and is complete with all of the EIPs intended for Pectra. We may see some minor specification changes or minor EIPs, but the features included here will make it into existing public testnets and ultimately the Ethereum mainnet.”
Ethereum developers also highlighted in the recent announcement that there are some major changes to the staking workflow coming to Pectra and the Mekong testnet will be the first place to test them.
At the time of publication, the price of Ethereum is trading at $2.814,45, up 7% over the past 24 hours. In its weekly development, the second-largest cryptocurrency has been seeing significant gains over the past few days, rising 6.6% overall over the past seven days. Ethereum (ETH) currently has a trading volume of $34.998.969.301 over the past 24 hours, representing a 13,60% drop from a day ago and signaling a recent dip in market activity.
