Latest Ethereum conference: Targeting activation of Dencun in January, with the expected Goerli fork date set for early next year.

BlockBeats news: On December 8th, Ethereum core developer timbeiko.eth summarized the 176th ACDE meeting on social media. The developers discussed the status of Dencun, the schedule for the test network, and how to plan the next network upgrade. According to the meeting discussion, Devnet #12 was launched last week, and almost all clients are running on it. Errors were found and fixed in several clients, including Reth and Lighthouse. Meanwhile, the development team is ready to fork the test network and plans to conduct a large Goerli shadow fork in the coming weeks. The developers agreed that if things go smoothly, they will set the Goerli fork date in early 2024 and aim to activate Dencun on the network in January. It is reported that the last ACDE meeting of 2023 will be held on December 21st at 22:00 Beijing time.