After an initial attempt earlier this month failed, Ethereum engineers launched the Holesky test network on Thursday.
In place of the Goerli testnet, which is already in widespread usage, the new Holesky network is intended to assist engineers in testing some ambitious scaling plans for the primary Ethereum blockchain. The new testnet was created to alleviate Goerli’s testnet ETH supply issues and would enable twice as many validators to join the network compared to mainnet.
On Sept. 15, the original planned launch date of Holesky, was meant to commemorate the historic “Merge” transfer of Ethereum to a proof-of-stake blockchain that uses less energy. However, developers claim that because of some misconfiguration errors, that didn’t happen.
After the initial launch effort failed, developers chose to start over, “considering it’ll be a new network that’ll live for years,” Parithosh Jayanthi, a devops engineer at the Ethereum Foundation said in a recent interview.