Ethereum developers on Wednesday initially celebrated a seemingly successful test of Pectra, the blockchain’s most significant upgrade since 2024, on the Sepolia test network. However, hours after the test, Sepolia began to encounter errors.
It was the second buggy test for the highly anticipated Pectra upgrade, which is designed to improve Ethereum’s efficiency, user experience, and validator system. The issues have led to calls from some developers that the upgrade be delayed.
Wednesday’s Sepolia test was expected to be the final step before Pectra’s launch on Ethereum’s mainnet. Initially, the test appeared to succeed, but later, developers noticed empty blocks being added to the chain.
The Ethereum Foundation attributed the issue to „an issue with Sepolia’s permissioned deposit contract,” which „prevented many execution layer clients from including transactions in blocks.” In other words, the problem stemmed from a misconfiguration specific to the Sepolia test, rather than
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