Street to Altair 🛣⭐️
tl;dr
Pyrmont fork, testing
After a collection of small however extremely helpful Altair devnets, Pyrmont (a big public testnet) received an improve final week. The transfer to Altair went easily and we are actually prepared for the subsequent part of testing and upgrades.
This week Pyrmont has many check state of affairs Above Deprecated quickly check web. Don’t panic! As of this writing, Pyrmont has already reached 482 epochs and nearly all of validators have been offline for a number of days. Such checks assist weed out nook circumstances in consensus code and spotlight consumer points in dealing with load in distinctive situations.
Prater is subsequent
Now that Pyrmont has been upgraded, subsequent comes a bigger, longer-term testnet, Prater. The consumer group has agreed on an improve date of September 2 (12:00 PM UTC). See the complete configuration of the Altair Prater community right here.
Preserve an eye fixed out for consumer releases that embody Prater fork configurations. These will drop over the subsequent week, permitting testnet nodes to be upgraded in preparation for the fork subsequent Thursday.
After upgrading Prater, this can be a nice time to set off numerous operations in your community.
When is the Altair mainnet?
There’s nonetheless a variety of work to do right here and there, however Altair’s mainnet fork is quickly approaching. Assuming Pyrmont testing went comparatively easily and the Prater improve was profitable, the consumer and his group are concentrating on his Altair mainnet launch on the finish of September 🚀
