Ethereum developers launched a new test network, Hoodi, on Monday that will be used to carry out the blockchain’s upcoming 'Pectra’ upgrade.
Pectra will go live on Hoodi on March 26, and if all goes well, the long-awaited upgrade will proceed to Etheruem’s mainnet roughly 30 days later, according to the network’s core developers.
Hoodi was created following faulty Pectra tests on Ethereum’s other testnets, Holesky and Sepolia, which failed to finalize properly due to problems with how they were configured.
Test networks like Holesky, Sepolia, and Hoodi aim to mimic the main Ethereum network — allowing developers the opportunity to test out code changes or major upgrades like Pectra in a low-stakes environment before deploying them to the mainnet.
Originally, the Pectra upgrade would have been activated on Ethereum following those two earlier tests. Because they didn’t go smoothly, developers decided to build Hoodi to test the ambitious Pectra upgrade one more time, although the
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