Testnet name needed for Sepolia replacement

[thegaram33]

Is Sepolia still expected to be deprecated this year?

[ArikG]

What is the official place for information about Ethereum testnets (and this question about Sepolia Deprecation?
I couldn’t find the one source of truth for it.

[abcoathup]

@ArikG

What is the official place for information about Ethereum testnets

Each testnet has a repo in eth-clients

GitHub - eth-clients/sepolia: the sepolia/bepolia testnet configurations.

For announcements see blog.ethereum.org

[abcoathup]

@thegaram33

Is Sepolia still expected to be deprecated this year?

Sepolia testnet replacement & sunsetting

Currently it seems like we’d start hitting sepolia state being too big to run cheaply issues around mid next year. We would want to launch a PoW network that goes through all the phases with a few days/weeks (depending on phase) at a time and then eventually ends up at the latest fork by Q1 2027? Once we’re at the latest fork, we can distribute the keys to the small set of signers. It’ll mimic sepolia, so not everyone can stake. That way we’d end up with a network thats very similar to mainnet a…