Developers Anticipate Relaunch Of Ethereum\u2019s Holesky Testnet Between Sept. 22 and Sept. 28 After Configuration Issues Are Resolved<\/p>\n
The deployment of Ethereum\u2019s new Holesky testnet has been pushed back by one to two weeks. On Sept. 15, Nethermind, an Ethereum client team, tweeted<\/a> that an execution layer misconfiguration was the culprit for Holesky\u2019s failed launch.<\/p>\n Nethermind said a relaunch would likely take place in one week\u2019s time, suggesting Holesky could go live as early as this Friday. However, Barnabus Busa, a DevOps engineer for the Ethereum Foundation, published<\/a> a GitHub pull request suggesting the relaunch should occur on September 28.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s extremely likely that we relaunch the network with new genesis files and have the network up ~two weeks from now,\u201d said<\/a> Paritosh, an Ethereum foundation DevOps engineer.<\/p>\n Holesky is set to replace Ethereum\u2019s Goerli testnet, which is scheduled to be deprecated next year. Goerli is Ethereum\u2019s longest-running testnet, having launched in 2018. However, since 2022, Goerli has suffered from a shortage of its network token, Goerli ETH<\/a> (GETH), with developers resorting to purchasing GETH on the open market just to experiment with their code.<\/p>\n GETH is freely distributed in small quantities via faucets, but rocketing demand and network activity gave rise to a market for the testnet token. GETH was changing hands for $0.69<\/a> on Feb. 28 and drove more than $1.5M in daily trade volume, drawing criticism from the Ethereum community. GETH last traded for $0.04<\/a>, according to CoinGecko.<\/p>\n