How client diversity saved Holesky: Lessons for the future

How client diversity saved Holesky: Lessons for the future

|Thu. Jun. 19, 2025
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Holesky, the largest Ethereum public testnet experienced one of the best, unplanned events for chaos testing as it hard-forked to Pectra. With an invalid block, consistent forking and a non-finality period spanning a duration of three weeks, client and infrastructure teams were pushed to Ethereum's limitations to discover edge cases that led to many fixes and lessons learned for the future. Join Nico and Phil of the Lodestar team as they detail their experiences and how the minority TypeScript consensus client Lodestar contributed to the recovery of the testnet.

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