Version of the Highway to Altair 🛣⭐️
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Pyrmont forks, testing in progress
After a collection of small however very invaluable Altair devnets, Pyrmont — a big public check community — upgraded final week. The transition to Altair went easily, setting the stage for the subsequent wave of testing and upgrades.
This week, Pyrmont takes heart stage as we run the streak check eventualities on quickly out of date testnet. Do not panic! On the time of writing, Pyrmont is already 482 epochs out of finality with a big proportion of validators being offline for a number of days. Such exams assist remedy nook instances within the consensus code, in addition to spotlight shoppers’ issues in dealing with workloads in distinctive eventualities.
Adopted by Prater
With Pyrmont upgraded, Prater — a bigger and longer-term check community — is subsequent. The consumer groups agreed on an improve date of September 2nd (12:00 UTC). See the complete configuration for the Altair Prater community right here.
Hold your eyes open for consumer releases that embrace the Prater fork configuration. These ought to drop over the subsequent week and will let you improve your testnet nodes in preparation for the fork subsequent Thursday.
After Prater’s improve, it is a good time to induce varied operations on the community — get out of the validator, you may get hit — have enjoyable!
When mainnet Altair?
Whereas there’s nonetheless so much to do between right here and there, the Altair mainnet fork is quick approaching. Assuming comparatively minor Pyrmont testing and a profitable Prater improve, consumer groups are aiming to launch the Altair mainnet on the finish of September 🚀
