The Ephemery Testnet is now running the Pectra upgrade. You can play with MaxEB with no risk now!

The Ephemery testnet is a new-ish Ethereum testnet that resets every 28 days. You can find all relevant links to it here: https://ephemery.dev.

Today, in a regular 28-day restart cycle, we upgraded Ethereum to Pectra.

What does this mean?

It means that if you operate a validator, or if you're thinking about it, you can now see how Max EB works in practice. You can PoW mine a thousand Ephemery Ether in a few minutes, and use that Ether to launch validators and use the 0x02 credential to stake up to 2048 Ether on one validator, and receive higher rewards for any whole number effective balance above 32. (In other words, you'll receive greater rewards if you stake 33, 34 Eth, etc.)

Ephemery is the PERFECT place to Fuck Around and Find Out how Pectra, Max EB, and 0x02 will affect validators.

The best part about all of this is you won't need to wait a long time for sync - because Ephemery resets every 28 days, there's no chain bloat to worry about.

Cheers to Ephemery!