Ethereum classic developers are speeding up plans to test a proposed upgrade for the blockchain network.

The move to ramp up the timeline came during a developer call on Thursday, during which ecosystem stakeholders expressed a desire to see the system-wide upgrade — dubbed “Atlantis” — occur sometime later this summer. But rather than committing to a mainnet activation date more than two months in advance of the original proposed timeline, it was agreed that the testnet activation of Atlantis could be brought up to two weeks from Thursday, or June 19, instead of in early August.

“The July 1st target is off. No need to further discuss that,” concluded user “soc1c” in the ethereum classic Discord channel. “We have agreed on testnet and can still decide on mainnet.”

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