Proto-Danksharding Ahoy! Ethereum Upgrade Clears Another Hurdle

Ethereum's Dencun upgrade, which introduces proto-danksharding, became active on the Sepolia testnet on Tuesday, following its earlier activation on the Goerli testnet. The upgrade is designed to reduce transaction costs for layer-2 blockchains by making data availability cheaper and addressing scalability issues. The article says that after full danksharding, Ethereum could handle more than 100,000 transactions per second more cheaply. The last testnet deployment, Holesky, is scheduled to implement Dencun on February 7, after which a date for mainnet activation will be set.