Holešky: Validators and Staking providers (Expected end of life 30th September, 2025). Client developers will also use Holesky to test gas limit increases and other protocol stress tests.
Sepolia: Application and tooling devs (Expected end of life 30th September, 2026)
Hoodi: Validators and Staking providers (Expected end of life 30th September, 2028)
Planned Sepolia replacement: Expected launch date of March 2026
Train station in Saukrasti, Latvia. Directly translated as “sunny shores”. One of most famous summer destinations in Latvia. As part of large “Rail Baltica” corruption scandal in 2024 which unveiled insane corruption and resulted half of countries train stations in unfinished renovation states. Saulkrasti test network symbolises hope for sunny shores of future efficient and transparent technologies.
Saulkrasti - train station in Latvia. Direct translation means “sunny shores”.
Give this country which no-one speaks about some love please.
Symbolism:
In 2024 there was a country wide scandal about “Rail Baltica” project of modernising railroad infrastructure. It appeared that unhidden corruption with clearly infeasible deliverables was put in to the budget, which ended up majority of country train stations being unreconstructed, instead of promised new in-line floors to enter trains, country-wide, citizens were forced to jump in to mud for a year, watching under-finished construction sites.
Sunny shores (Saulkrasti) network symbolises hope, that Ethereum solutions tested at this network will eventually contribute towards solving global inefficiencies and transparency in budget allocations & large scale projects delivery.
Naivasha - a town (and a lake and railway station of the same name) in Kenya where a core devs workshop was hosted last year. Pronounced Nai-vaa-shuh. In the Maasai language it means “that which heaves”, referring to the waves on lake Naivasha