ChainCatcher message, Matrixport's latest report points out that Solana is the main beneficiary of the recent meme coin craze, as the issuance and trading costs on Solana are very cheap, while Ethereum's gas fees remain relatively expensive - until the Dencun upgrade. Therefore, this upgrade may lead to a decrease in SOL/USDT trading volume.

According to ChainCatcher news, The Block reported that the Starknet Foundation announced that the Starknet mainnet will undergo the Starknet 0.13.1 upgrade during the Ethereum Dencun upgrade. The Starknet 0.13.1 upgrade adds support for EIP4844 to reduce DA costs, as well as optimizations related to the shared prover SHARP to lower computational costs. With the Starknet 0.13.1 version update, Starknet will transition from using the expensive "calldata" method to send data to Ethereum to the more cost-effective "blobs" transaction type, significantly reducing fees. Calldata currently accounts for 85% to 90% of the Gas fees paid for transactions published on the Starknet network.In addition, Starknet stated that it will support Dynamic Layouts technology by the end of the third quarter, which can optimize space within transaction proofs, significantly lowering costs and thereby reducing user fees. Starknet will also launch the Volition feature by the end of 2024 or early 2025 to further reduce costs, allowing developers to choose to store data directly on-chain or off-chain based on cost and security needs.

ChainCatcher news, on February 16, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 181st Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call, where developers shared the latest updates on their preparations for the mainnet activation of the Dencun upgrade and discussed various Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs).Most of these were proposed to be included in the Pectra upgrade, while other proposals were suggested as "retroactive" EIPs, meaning that changes to the protocol rules would be applied retroactively to all Ethereum transactions since the genesis block.Ethereum Foundation DevOps Engineer Barnabas Busa stated that his team is synchronizing nodes to the Ethereum mainnet in preparation for the shadow fork. Developers plan to execute a shadow fork of the Ethereum mainnet for the Dencun upgrade after all final client versions of Dencun are released. The client teams plan to release the final version of Dencun later next week.Busa mentioned that his team will upgrade their nodes to these versions shortly thereafter and aims to complete the mainnet shadow fork by February 23 (Friday). Once the results of the shadow fork are available and the outcome is positive, he will proceed to publish an official EF blog post announcing the mainnet activation date for the Dencun upgrade as March 13.

ChainCatcher news, EthHub co-founder Anthony Sassano (sassal.eth) posted on social media that the Ethereum Dencun upgrade will go live on the mainnet on March 13. It is reported that the developers have set the Dencun upgrade time for March 13 at 21:55 (block height 8626176), and this date needs to be approved by the developers and confirmed via GitHub.

ChainCatcher news, EthHub co-founder sassal.eth announced that the Ethereum Dencun upgrade is now live on the Holesky testnet. Next up is the Ethereum mainnet, with a specific date likely to be announced within the next 24 hours.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Ethereum developers plan to determine the mainnet launch date for the Dencun upgrade next Thursday (February 8), which will introduce several EIPs, including the proto-dank sharding that is expected to reduce Layer 2 transaction costs.In addition, Galaxy Digital's Vice President of Research, Christine Kim, stated that the likelihood of the Dencun mainnet being activated by the end of March is 80%, and there is also a possibility of it going live by the end of February, but she indicated that this possibility is low, close to 40%.

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum Dencun upgrade has been launched on the Sepolia testnet. It is reported that Sepolia is the second of the three testnets for the Dencun upgrade.Earlier this month, Dencun was launched on the Goerli testnet, but initially failed to finalize.In addition, Dencun will go live on its final Ethereum testnet, Holesky, on February 7. After that, developers will sign the date for activating Dencun on the main blockchain. The testnet replicates the main blockchain and allows developers to make any changes to the protocol or its decentralized applications in a low-risk environment.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official blog of the Ethereum Foundation, the Dencun network upgrade is scheduled to activate on January 17, 2024, at 14:32 (Beijing time) on the Goerli testnet. If no significant issues are found during this process, the upgrade will continue on the Sepolia and Holesky testnets. Once Dencun runs smoothly on all three testnets, mainnet activation will be arranged.This upgrade is another significant step following last year's Shapella upgrade, and it will introduce multiple changes. The most notable change is the implementation of EIP-4844, which introduces temporary data blobs (also known as "protodanksharding") aimed at reducing L2 transaction fees.