Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade on Sepolia ran into issues when an attacker exploited an overlooked vulnerability in Sepolia’s deposit contract, causing the network to mine empty blocks.

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Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade on Sepolia ran into issues when an attacker exploited an overlooked vulnerability in Sepolia’s deposit contract, causing the network to mine empty blocks.

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12:00am, Monday, March 10, 2025

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Ethereum’s highly anticipated Pectra upgrade encountered disruptions on the Sepolia testnet following an exploit that led to empty block mining.
Pectra rolled out on its final testnet, Sepolia, at 7:29 AM on March 5, but Ethereum developer Marius van der Wijden said in a March 8 post that the team immediately started seeing error messages on their Geth node and empty blocks being mined.

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