Ethereum’s Major Update Date Has Changed, Brought Forward – Here’s the New Date

Ethereum (ETH) developers have set the mainnet activation date for the long-awaited Fusaka update as December 3 ￰0￱ update schedule previously projected to be extended to 2026 has thus been brought ￰1￱ decision was made following tests on Fusaka ￰2￱ to a summary by Ethereum researcher Christine Kim

the tests revealed some software bugs and installation problems leaving developers with less time to measure data ￰3￱ the testnet was stable for a short time developers agreed to increase the blob capacity in two phases: first to 10/15 blobs per block then to 14/21 ￰4￱ Ethereum

a blob refers to temporary data packets used by rollups or scaling solutions to send transaction data to the chain at a lower ￰5￱ News: New Cryptocurrency Law with Significant Impact in the US Shows Progress Devnet-6 which will be launched soon

will be used to verify these capacity ￰6￱ numbers are then planned to be migrated to public test networks and the ￰7￱ the process developers discovered that Prysm one of Ethereum's major validator clients was struggling under high load and was generating “orphan blocks.” Orphan blocks are blocks that were correctly generated by a validator but were rejected because the network chose a different block at the same ￰8￱ researcher Justin Traglia noted that a bug in the ckzg library used to verify blobs has been ￰9￱ also added that a lighter version is being prepared to make upgrades easier for client teams. *This is not investment ￰10￱ Reading: Ethereum’s Major Update Date Has Changed

Brought Forward – Here’s the New Date