# Checkpoint - March 2025

DevFeed: [Checkpoint - March 2025](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/checkpoint-march-2025-17146.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/25/acdcheckpoint-001>)

Author: Nixo Rokish

Published: 2025-03-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Post Mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/post-mortem.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>)

## AI overview

This checkpoint summarizes Ethereum core developers' recent work on the Pectra testnet upgrades and preparation for the Pectra mainnet fork. It covers configuration issues on the Holešky and Sepolia testnets, the launch of Hoodi for further testing, and conditions for selecting a mainnet activation date.

## Source excerpt

Ethereum's weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for brief high-level updates with a target cadence of every 4-5 calls, depending on what's happening in core development. See the initial update here. All subsequent updates will be hosted here on...