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Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade went live on the mainnet on March 13, 2024 at 13:55 UTC. The upgrade introduces “blobs” which will see a significant reduction in transaction fees for Layer-2 protocols. Ethereum core developers have activated the Dencun upgrade on the mainnet, with the highly anticipated implementation rolling out at epoch 269568 at 13:55 UTC.  Dencun had previously successfully deployed on the Holesky testnet in February. Dencun upgrade is live The upgrade introduces “blobs,” with the EIP-4844 set to see a significant decrease in transaction fees for Layer 2 protocols. Ethereum and several L2 tokens surged earlier in the week as the Dencun upgrade approached. While prices have slightly retreated in the last 24 hours, the community is super bullish on what this hard fork means for the broader Ethereum ecosystem. The last time the community vibe has been this positive was during the previous two major upgrade s...

The long-awaited Dencun upgrade has finally arrived for the Goerli testnet , although low participation resulted in it failing to be finalized in the expected time. The Dencun upgrade , which includes a major update known as “proto-danksharding” designed to help reduce layer-2 transaction fees, went live on Ethereum’s Goerli testnet on Jan. 17, according to Tim Beiko, community manager at Ethereum Foundation. Goerli forked @parithosh_j currently monitoring things live: https://t.co/MGaF9S3Qth — timbeiko.eth ️ (@TimBeiko) January 17, 2024 Beiko acknowledged that the participation among validators for the upgrade was “not great,” but noted that a similar outcome “was expected.” It also appears the upgrade resulted in a “chain split” as not all validators synced with each other for the update. And it seems like we have a chain split! Client teams are looking into it, but it's likely to a while to pin down + fix the ...