Ethereum's Platåberget Testnet Goes Live Ahead of Glamsterdam Upgrade

The Ethereum Foundation has announced that the Platåberget public testnet is now live. This marks the next stage of testing for the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, which is scheduled to go live on August 20.

Platåberget is a short-term testnet designed for community-driven testing and experimentation. Unlike previous devnets, it will run for several months, allowing developers to test and identify issues with post-Glamsterdam Ethereum.

The Platåberget public testnet has a small but publicly joinable validator set, enabling anyone to deposit a new validator and test their validator and builder workflows.

The Glamsterdam fork on the testnet will test key areas including Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), gas repricings, Block-Level Access Lists (BALs), and the new builder API flow.