Closed TheGreatAxios closed 5 months ago
Can you expand on the rationale for these changes?
Links to documentation or announcements to justify these would be appreciated, so I can verify the correctness
Hey @mds1
Of course!
SKALE is an Ethereum Scaling solution that is built on top of Ethereum. The previous testnet setup was bulit ontop of Goerli and was recently deprecated in favor of a new deployment on top of Holesky.
This process resulted in new chains being spun up, however, they still map 1:1 with the core Mainnet Hubs setup. See here for the 4 key hubs: https://portal.skale.space/chains
The reason why two of the chains were removed is because previously all the chains EXCEPT for Chaos had a deployer block. This is no longer the case and so with the new testnet some key changes were made to allow anyone to easily start testing on the hub that matches their "category" the best. Due to this there is no longer a new for Chaos and so Chaos was not created on the new testnet. Additionally, the Psyche chain wound up not being used and so again it was decided that it would not be created on the new testnet. The key with this is that the old testnet (staging-v3 endpoints) was spun down and so to reduce confusion for everyone I chose to remove them from the list entirely.
You can see new testnet chains here: https://testnet.portal.skale.space/chains.
Lastly, we are in the process of updating various other tools, docs, etc for the new testnets:
Let me know if any further questions!
Thanks
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