Ethereum (ETH) developers announced the target date for the long-awaited Dencun upgrade on Thursday. If all goes well, the upgrade will take place on March 13th. This announcement follows successful testing on Ethereum’s test networks.
The date for Dencun has been announced
The Dencun upgrade was originally scheduled to launch at the end of last year. However, due to technical problems, this was postponed until earlier this year.
The final date was announced during an Ethereum developer coordination meeting on Thursday. The upgrade is considered the largest adjustment to the network since April 2023. The largest application that Dencun will bring is “Proto-Dankhardening”.
What will change?
Proto-Dankharding is a technology in which transaction data is, so to speak, thrown together, making the processing of this data easier and faster. These piles of data are called “blobs.” Proto-Dankharding will significantly reduce the cost of transactions on Layer 2 networks such as Arbitrum (ARB) and Optimism (OP).
Proto-Thankshardening is a technology that has been anticipated for years. This is an important step towards increasing the scalability of the Ethereum network.
“It’s nice to see years of effort finally arrive on the Ethereum mainnet,” he saidsays Paritosh Jayanthi, a developer at the Ethereum Foundation. The exact timing of the Dencun “Hard Fork” upgrade is slot number 8,626,176, which will take place on March 13th at 2:55 p.m. Dutch time.
A lock is a 12-second interval in which a block can be formed on the Ethereum blockchain. A slot can also be empty if no block is formed. Slots and blocks are therefore not the same thing.
Proto-Dankhardening is the first version of roofing technology called Dankshardening. In the long term, gratitude hardening will also be applied to the Ethereum mainnet itself in addition to Layer 2 solutions. However, this step is still a long way off.
According to the Roadmap After Dencun, the next adjustment to the Ethereum network is the Prague/Electra upgrade. Ethereum is required for this upgrade node help store larger amounts of data.