The Ethereum community experienced problems after deploying Pectra upgrade on Sepolia testnet on March 5. Ethereum team experts study the problem that stops new transactions from being included in blockspace.
Tim Beiko who leads support teams at Ethereum Foundation announced this issue through Facebook showing Sepolia’s custom deposit contract brought EL processing difficulties. He published the news an hour following the end of testing as the last testnet challenge.Beiko found that this problem creates several problems with EL clients and their transactions.
Ethereum Mainnet Launch Uncertain
Prior to this Terrence confirmed the version had completed its tests perfectly and acted optimistic about its chances of succeeding. Our team continues assessing technical errors that might prevent Ethereum from starting its mainnet service on April 8 or force extended delivery.
The Holesky testnet received Pectra on February 24 before issues caused it to fail finalization. The Ethereum Foundation ended February 28 with complete resolutions to all major platform problems. New problems discovered on Sepolia remind us that the upgrade could encounter difficulties when becoming live.
As part of Pectra , It offers 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals to enhance staking systems and boost layer 2 scalability for Ethereum while increasing its network capacity. The Pectra system launch represents the largest improvement since the Dencun system in March 2024.
The Ethereum development team is actively searching and solving the Sepolia testnet problems. The main issue seems to arise from differences between the testnet deposit contract and how the network update should operate. Several clients experienced difficulties processing transactions which slowed down the block processing operations unexpectedly.
Ethereum Upgrade Faces Challenges
After the problem emerged the Ethereum development team kept working to find a solution before the main network began operating. Developers fixed the Holesky testnet problem promptly since they did it within two days. The official release of Pectra to ETH on April 8 may face further delays which could affect its planned schedule.
When this problem continues the Ethereum team could start an additional test phase or return to Sepolia testnet later as needed. The Ethereum Foundation still needs to release updated implementation plans and these details will emerge over the next few days.
The Pectra improvement package will increase stakeholder rewards and help merge ETH with other blockchain protocols. New EIPs will improve cryptocurrency transactions and expand network capacity when added during the Pectra upgrade.
Ethereum users will pay attention to updates about the Pectra improvement to the network. People watch ETH closely to monitor how well it executes the network change to its new format.
