The Mekong devnet was meant to be a playground for pockets builders to experiment with UX modifications and for stakers to achieve confidence within the upcoming Pectra modifications.
The Pectra community improve has been activated on the Ethereum Sepolia and Holesky testnets. These networks can now be used to check the Pectra improve options. In mild of this, we would prefer to announce the deprecation of the Mekong testnet on seventh March, 2025.
Utility and tooling builders are inspired to make use of Sepolia to check purposes, sensible contracts, and different EVM performance. Its permissioned validator set gives a steady check atmosphere. Alternatively, many local development environments permit for testing towards copies of the Ethereum mainnet state.
Stakers and infrastructure suppliers involved with protocol-level testing are inspired to attend for the Holesky testnet to finalize, or to await an announcement on the Ethereum R&D discord for an alternate testing location. For validator setup testing, stakers must also think about the Ephemery testnet. This community resets weekly and allows light-weight end-to-end testing of the validator lifecycle.
