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On October 22, the smart contract security company ChainSecurity announced that the Glamsterdam hard fork on the Ethereum Hoodi testnet has been postponed. Researchers stated that security impacts have been found in existing contracts and identified 13 real cases, and they are currently conducting responsible disclosure with the affected projects. The announcement requests teams to review the contracts, and the Ethereum Foundation is assessing the scope of the impact; the announcement did not name the projects, provide contract addresses, or give an alternative fork date.The related issues involve contracts that continue execution after capturing failed external calls. Under the reviewed gas changes, the failure handler may complete execution, whereas it would previously roll back due to gas exhaustion. The caller can deliberately provide insufficient gas to complete the target operation, but enough to allow the outer contract to record a permanent failure, causing operations that could have been retried to lose their recovery path.The technical disclosure reviews EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 from the version specification dated October 13, where the gas examples described are for proposed execution behavior. The state-gas reservoir will be fully passed with the call, and forwarding restrictions apply to execution gas, with gasleft() only reporting the execution balance. According to the reviewed rules, clearing storage slots that start at zero at the beginning of a transaction can replenish up to 97,920 execution gas; intermediary contracts may also credit back the accounted state-creation fees upon REVERT and return them to the caller.

According to the Ethereum Foundation's announcement on October 16, the Glamsterdam upgrade is scheduled to activate on October 26 at 17:42:48 (UTC), which is 01:42:48 on October 27 Beijing time, on the Hoodi testnet; at that time, the block Gas limit on Hoodi will also be increased to 200 million.This upgrade includes the embedded proposer and builder separation, block-level access lists, and Gas billing adjustments. The Sepolia testnet was activated on October 6, and the upgrade date for the Ethereum mainnet has not yet been determined. Node operators need to update the execution layer and consensus layer clients before the Hoodi activation.

ChainCatcher message, following a successful trial on the Holesky testnet two weeks ago, Ethereum developers launched the second test of the Fusaka upgrade earlier on Tuesday on the Sepolia testnet. Before the developers confirm the mainnet activation date, a final rehearsal is planned for October 28 on the Hoodi testnet, marking the last step before deployment.Fusaka introduces the PeerDAS data validation method, which allows validators to process only a portion of the data, thereby reducing bandwidth requirements and lowering costs for institutional users and Layer2 networks.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko posted on social media that the new testnet Hoodi has been launched, aimed at helping to complete the testing of Pectra. The Pectra upgrade will be launched on the Hoodi testnet next Wednesday.Meanwhile, the Holesky testnet will continue to be maintained until September and can still be used to test everything, but it does not support validator exit testing.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Foundation stated in its official blog that during the activation process of the Pectra testnet, issues were exposed regarding the configuration changes of the deposit contract on the Ethereum testnet in the client. Although the recovery process of the Sepolia network was relatively straightforward and has now been fully restored, the Holesky network experienced a significant amount of inactive leakage during the recovery mechanism. The Holesky network has since completed its final confirmation, but it will take about a year for the exiting validators to be completely removed from the validator set. While stakers can test deposits, merges, and all other Pectra features, the scale of the exit queue makes Holesky unsuitable for testing the complete validator lifecycle within a reasonable timeframe.To address this issue, a new testnet has been launched: Hoodi. It will activate the Pectra network upgrade at epoch 2048 (Beijing time March 26, 2025, Wednesday 15:37:12). In the future, staking operators and infrastructure providers should use Hoodi for validator testing. To allow time for migration, the Holesky testnet will be supported until September 2025. All other Pectra features can be tested on Holesky except for validator exits.Summary of testnets and their uses:Holesky: Validators and staking providers (expected termination date: September 30, 2025). Client developers will also use Holesky to test gas limit increases and other protocol stress tests.Sepolia: Application and tool developers (expected termination date: September 30, 2026).Hoodi: Validators and staking providers (expected termination date: September 30, 2028).Planned Sepolia alternative: Expected to launch in March 2026.

ChainCatcher message, Tim Beiko, the protocol support lead at the Ethereum Foundation, updated on X about the latest information regarding the Pectra upgrade.A new long-term testnet, Hoodi, will launch on March 17, and this testnet will execute the Pectra upgrade test on March 26;After Hoodi successfully executes the Pectra upgrade test, the mainnet upgrade time will be decided, expected to be at least 30 days after the test upgrade (on or after April 25).The Fusaka plan will be executed synchronously, with the deadline for proposing EIPs set for March 24, and the tentative freeze date for the upgrade scope set for April 10.

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