Ethereum developers have suspended support for the Ropsten testnet and will shut down the network in the coming weeks as the ecosystem shifted to the Proof-of-Stake algorithm.
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Ethereum Foundation said in a blog post that the majority of remaining nodes will be shut down during the December 15-31, 2022 period. Ethereum developers will also stop supporting Rinkeby after mid-2023. Users can migrate to either Goerli or Sepolia.
The majority of Ethereum testnets have become irrelevant due to the Merge, a vital upgrade of the ecosystem, which introduced staking providers that validate blocks in the Ethereum network.
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