---
title: Rinkeby deprecation
description: Deprecation notice for the Rinkeby test network.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/core-services-preview.png
---

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# Rinkeby deprecation

Though Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway launched with support for the Rinkeby testnet, Rinkeby did not run through [The Merge ↗](https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/) and - as a result - will no longer be a reliable staging environment for mainnet.

Cloudflare will be deprecating support for Rinkeby on January 30, 2023.

## Migration

To avoid any issues with your Web3 development or debugging, you should switch over to the [Sepolia testnet](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/ethereum-gateway/reference/supported-networks/), which is fully supported with your Ethereum Gateway.

To migrate, you should update the endpoints you use when [reading from or writing to](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/how-to/use-ethereum-gateway/) the Ethereum network.

For example, you might have been using the previous endpoints to interact with your Ethereum Gateway.

Previous curl

```
curl https://web3-trial.cloudflare-eth.com/v1/rinkeby \--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \--data '{  "jsonrpc": "2.0",  "method": "eth_getBlockByNumber",  "params": ["0x2244", true],  "id": 1}'
```

Previous JS Fetch API

```
await fetch(  new Request('https://web3-trial.cloudflare-eth.com/v1/rinkeby', {    method: 'POST',    body: JSON.stringify({      jsonrpc: '2.0',      method: 'eth_getBlockByNumber',      params: ['0x2244', true],      id: 1,    }),    headers: {      'Content-Type': 'application/json',    },  })).then(resp => {  return resp.json();});
```

To migrate away from Rinkeby, change the end of your endpoint to use another testnet.

New curl

```
curl https://web3-trial.cloudflare-eth.com/v1/sepolia \--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \--data '{  "jsonrpc": "2.0",  "method": "eth_getBlockByNumber",  "params": ["0x2244", true],  "id": 1}'
```

New JS Fetch API

```
await fetch(  new Request('https://web3-trial.cloudflare-eth.com/v1/sepolia', {    method: 'POST',    body: JSON.stringify({      jsonrpc: '2.0',      method: 'eth_getBlockByNumber',      params: ['0x2244', true],      id: 1,    }),    headers: {      'Content-Type': 'application/json',    },  })).then(resp => {  return resp.json();});
```

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