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Ethereum developers decided to launch a temporary "shadow fork" of the Holesky testnet in March 2025 to continue research on the delayed Pectra upgrade

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Ethereum developers have decided to launch a temporary "shadow fork" of the Holesky testnet in March 2025 to continue research on the delayed Pectra upgrade. This decision follows issues encountered during recent testnet deployments on Holesky and Sepolia, where misconfigurations led to bugs, prompting the need for additional testing before the mainnet launch.

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12:00am, Thursday, March 6, 2025

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The shadow fork is designed to operate as a stopgap duplicate network, allowing tests of Pectra to continue instead of waiting for the actual Holesky testnet to reach finality later this month. Developers expect that the shadow fork is something they could have up and running as early as next week.
Ethereum core devs will spin up a “shadow network” to prevent delaying research into the Pectra hard fork, after a mishap on the Holesky testnet last month.

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