Ethereum’s Holesky Testnet Fails To Launch, in Rare Tech Misstep for the Blockchain

Ethereum’s Holesky Testnet Fails To Launch, in Rare Tech Misstep for the Blockchain


Ethereum developers failed to get their new test network, Holesky, started on Friday, marring a technological milestone that was supposed to serve as a celebration of the first anniversary of last year’s historic “Merge” upgrade.

While some validators were able to manually start the test network, there was a misconfiguration in one of the genesis files of the network, according to Ethereum core developers.

As a result, Ethereum core developers decided to postpone the launch for about two weeks, giving them time to regroup.

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The episode represents a rare gaffe for Ethereum, which over the past year has managed to smoothly implement key upgrades,

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