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title: "Ethereum Goerli support ending April 1st - migrate to Sepolia"
description: "We will turn off our Ethereum Goerli nodes on April 1, 2024. If you try to send requests to these nodes, your requests will fail with a DNS resolution error."
---

# Ethereum Goerli support ending April 1st - migrate to Sepolia

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We will turn off our Goerli nodes for [**Ethereum**](https://www.alchemy.com/ethereum) on April 1, 2024. \(Note: this is an updated date from Alchemy's original deprecation date of April 3, 2024.\) This means if you try to send requests to these nodes, your requests will fail with a DNS resolution error.

Per Ethereum’s [original plans](https://blog.ethereum.org/2023/11/30/goerli-lts-update), the Goerli testnet was due to be sunset on April 13th. However, [nearly all Goerli validators](https://grafana.observability.ethpandaops.io/dashboard/snapshot/fwALK9PEe7CLEOO81lma5bT6k7jq7Gcs?orgId=0&from=1707927490905&to=1710519490905) are currently shut down.

This means the Ethereum Goerli network will not function reliably until April 13th. We are already seeing extreme instability in the network, and **we urge you to migrate to Sepolia immediately.**

## Required actions for developers

**To ensure you’re able to continue testing seamlessly, you will need to migrate to Ethereum Sepolia before April 1st.**

Ethereum Sepolia is the sustainable path forward for web3 developers and we encourage devs to use it for any testing and development needs.

[Ethereum Sepolia offers many benefits](https://www.alchemy.com/overviews/sepolia-testnet) over Goerli, such as improved scalability and lower gas fees — all attributes we think will ultimately lead to better application development.

## How to migrate to Ethereum Sepolia

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Follow these 5 steps to migrate from Goerli to the Sepolia testnet on Ethereum:

1. [Create a new app](https://dashboard.alchemy.com/apps?showModal) from the Alchemy dashboard on the Etherum Sepolia network.
1. Get free Optimism Sepolia tokens from Alchemy's public [Ethereum Sepolia Faucet](/faucets/ethereum-sepolia) which drips up to 0.5 SepoliaETH per day.
1. Change your `API\_URL` to your Optimism Sepolia RPC URL: `https://eth-sepolia.g.alchemy.com/v2/\[YOUR-API-KEY\]`
1. Deploy your test contract to Ethereum Sepolia.
1. Change your tests to use the new contract.

For more detailed instructions, please reference the ["How to Deploy a Smart Contract to the Sepolia Testnet"](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/how-to-deploy-a-smart-contract-to-the-sepolia-testnet) tutorial on our docs.

### A note on other chains

Goerli deprecation dates for other chains are up to date on [this blog post](https://www.alchemy.com/blog/goerli-faucet-deprecation).