Ethereum Upgrades Have Failed to Boost Network Activity in Meaningful Way: JPMorgan
Neither the number of transactions nor active addresses has increased significantly following recent network upgrades, the report said.
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The Protocol: Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Finally Goes Live
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The Protocol: Ethereum’s Final Pectra Test Goes Live
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Hello, Hoodi: Ethereum Welcomes a New Testnet
Ethereum’s ‘Pectra’ upgrade will be tested on Hooli following buggy attempts on other testnets, Holesky and Sepolia.
Ethereum Developers Postpone Pectra Upgrade Following Buggy Tests
After two buggy tests, Ethereum’s developers have decided to spend a bit more time collecting data on the highly-anticipated Pectra upgrade.
The Protocol: The Second Buggy Test for Upcoming Ethereum Upgrade ‘Pectra’ Could Lead to a Delayed Mainnet Hard Fork
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Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Goes Live on ‘Holesky’ Testnet, But Fails to Finalize
The upgrade was pushed out on Monday, but it wasn’t entirely clear why the test network was not finalizing.
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Ethereum Developers Confirm Plan to Split ‘Pectra’ Upgrade In Two
The decision to split up the upgrade wasn’t unexpected. Developers had been discussing previously that Pectra was becoming too ambitious to ship all at once, and expressed desires to split it in order to minimize the risk of finding bugs in the code.