Ethereum's new testnet Holesky goes live

     Holesky was supposed to go live on September 15 (Merge Date), but it did not happen, it went live on September 29th on second attempt, thus it iscalled Holesky 2.0.

The Goerli testnet has been replaced

     Actually, Goerli was not a testnet but a hackathon project developed by Protocol Berg in August last year. Goerli was the first proof-of-authority that became popular due to its permissionless validator set. Now Holesky has replaced it.

Holesky completes Sepolia's work

     Goerli came to life after Sepolia. The Sepolia testnet was used to test smart contracts for developers. Holesky tests the infrastructure and protocol development for validators, node operators, and rollup teams. Holesky thus completes Sepolia's work.

Big Holesky shuts down Goerli, not Sepolia

     As mentioned above, Goerli was not a real testnet, so Goerli was shut down as soon as Holesky went live. But Sepolia is a real testnet built for developers, so it is still open to new developers. Holesky offers 1.6B HETH, 13 times more than mainnet's 120M.

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