Ethereum upgrades pose testing challenges, says Sprinter co-founder

Greg Markou, who maintained web3.js during the London hard fork, says testnets can't catch every edge case that breaks live apps Greg Markou has a warning for anyone who assumes Ethereum upgrades go smoothly because they passed a testnet: they often don’t. The co-founder and CEO of Sprinter says upgrades to the network are hard to test and can break a large number of applications without warning. He speaks from experience, having been in the room the last time it happened. His comments came during a public discussion among developers about the realities of shipping protocol changes on the world’s busiest smart contract platform. His central point was blunt. Testnets help, but they cannot account for every edge case that might trip up apps running on the live network.

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