Ropsten will no longer be supported
ethereum core developer Tim Biko has reiterated that the Ethereum testnet Ropsten is shutting down. According to an announcement published on the official Ethereum website, the Ropsten network will be shutting down in the coming weeks.
This follows a gradual sunsetting over the past few months in which infrastructure providers gradually stopped supporting the network and validator participation rates have been steadily declining.
The vast majority of remaining validator nodes will be shut down between December 15 and 31, 2022. After that, Ropsten will not be supported by the client team, the testing team, or the infrastructure team.
The release states that Rinkeby, which will remain operational until mid-2023 to provide users and application developers with the time to move to either Goerli or Sepolia, would be the next testnet to ride off into the sunset.
The Rinkeby testnet is not assumed to support future network upgrades, nor will it be a feature-equivalent replica of the Ethereum mainnet.
Casa adds Ethereum support
Casa, a popular Bitcoin self-custody firm, is adding Ethereum support to its platform, which some may find surprising because it is perceived as a purely Bitcoin-inclined firm. According to the company, a revamped version of the Casa app will debut in January.
In other news, Fantom, a non-custodial wallet and originally a Solana-native product, is now launching on Ethereum to allow a large user base in Web3 to interact with NFTs and decentralized applications.
At the time of publication, Ethereum’s ETH was changing hands at $1,277, up 1% in the last 24 hours.
