Kiln Shutdown Announcement

• The Merge is happening soon! This post explains however and erstwhile the upgrade volition happen, on with the lawsuit versions compatible with it.
• Kiln, an Ethereum merge testnet launched successful aboriginal 2022, volition beryllium unopen down during the week of September 12, 2022.
• Ropsten and Rinkeby are besides deprecated and scheduled to beryllium sunset successful Q4 2022 and Q3 2023 respectively.
• Users and developers should migrate to Goerli & Sepolia, which volition support being maintained and upgraded to bespeak changes to the Ethereum mainnet for the forseable future.

As previously announced, the Kiln, Ropsten and Rinkeby testnets are present deprecated and volition beryllium unopen down implicit the coming months.

Kiln, which was launched for the purposes of investigating post-merge Ethereum anterior to existing testnets merging, volition beryllium unopen down during the week of September 12, 2022. While anyone tin tally a node connected the network, bootnodes and validators maintained by lawsuit and investigating teams, arsenic good arsenic infrastructure providers, volition beryllium turned disconnected astatine that point. This follows the docket laid retired successful the deprecation announcement linked above.

Ropsten and Rinkeby are besides considered deprecated, with a unopen down day of Q4 2022 and Q2 2023 respectively. While the networks volition stay progressive until then, infrastructure providers whitethorn gradually restrict oregon region entree to these networks connected a shorter timeline.

Users and developers should migrate to Goerli and/or Sepolia, some of which are expected to beryllium maintained and upgraded successful accordance with Ethereum mainnet changes for the forseable future.

Expect different announcements connected this blog anterior to the Ropsten and Rinkeby shutdowns.

Farewell Kiln, you've lived up to your sanction 🔥🧱

Header photograph by Karl Hedin.