If successful, the Dencun upgrade will enhance scalability and significantly reduce transaction costs on layer-2s by way of a new process called “proto-danksharding.”
Ethereum developers plan to set a mainnet launch date for the Dencun upgrade on Thursday — which will introduce several EIPs, including proto-dank sharding that is expected to drive down transaction costs on layer-2s.
In a Feb. 1 post to Reddit, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko said recent testing of the upgrade “went very well” and highlighted key details of the All Developer Execution Call (ACDE) 180 call, where Ethereum developers drew attention to the recent success of the Sepolia fork on Jan. 30 as well as the upcoming Holesky testnet upgrade on Feb. 7.
The Dencun upgrade includes several major alterations to Ethereum’s consensus and execution layers, outlined in a Jan. 24 blog post from the Ethereum Foundation.
