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Purr-suit of Ethereum 🐾 #5

Purr-suit of Ethereum 🐾 #5

Written by Pooja Ranjan on 2/10/2025

Your Weekly Dose of Blockchain Updates and Meows!

Summary

This week's Ethereum updates cover key protocol advancements, proposal reviews, and community initiatives since the last newsletter. Highlights include:

  • Pectra Upgrade Progress: Client teams prepare for Holesky & Sepolia forks on Feb 13, with Pectra EIPs moving to Last Call status.
  • Devnet 6 Testing: Deployment announced, focusing on EOF, PeerDAS, ePBS & IL refinements.
  • EIP Reviews & Implementation Discussions: Multiple proposals reviewed, with debates on GitHub handle requirements and EIP-7702 documentation needs.
  • PEEPanEIP Podcast: Recent episodes cover Fast Confirmation Rules and EIP-7623.
  • EIP-7706 & Gas Market Changes: Vitalik Buterin discusses multi-dimensional gas pricing and the potential impact of calldata gas separation.
  • Public Goods & Community Updates: Deep Funding’s Level 2 juror applications open, Octant Epoch 7 Climate Round ongoing, and new EF leadership in AI & Public Goods.
  • Upcoming Ethereum Events: ETHDenver, ETHPrague, and Devconnect 2025.

Pectra (Prague+Electra) Upgrade

All Core Dev Consensus #150

Action Items

  • Prepare client releases for 13 February to enable Holesky and Sepolia Pectra forks.
  • [EL clients] Take a look at 7702 mempool implementation to surface test cases.
  • Add your client team’s Pectra retrospective by next week’s ACD: Pectra Retrospective
  • PSA: Move all Pectra EIPs to Last Call status!

Pectra Interop Testing Call

Key Decisions & Next Steps

  • Devnet 6 Deployment: Announcement in Interop channel; client teams should prepare for testing.
  • EIP-7702 Implementation: More documentation needed; community contributions welcome.
  • Tx Pool Tests: Address specific cases, integrate with EEST and Hive testing, review test list.
  • PeerDAS: Continue edge case syncing; prioritize after Pectra completion.
  • EOF Testing: Prepare for Kurtosis-based testing after Pectra Devnet 6.
  • ePBS & IL Testing: Proceeding with standalone domain testing before considering mainnet inclusion.

Breakout & Implementers’ Meeting

eth_simulate Implementers' Meeting Feb 03, 2025

RPC Standards Call #0

Portal Network Implementation #43

PeerDAS Breakout Room #16

RollCall #9.1 Breakout - L2 Execution Common Core: V1 Scope

  • Awaited
  • RollCall #10 planned for Febuary 12, 2025 at 14:00-15:30 UTC

EOF Implementers Call #66

EIPs Update

EIPsInsight

EIP Editing Office Hour Meeting 51

Proposal Review & Implementation Discussion

Sam Wilson reviewed the status of various proposals, moving some to review while others required further development. Full recording here.

  • Sam & Pooja agreed to extend a proposal’s deadline once the author addressed feedback.
  • Pooja emphasized the benefit of having at least one implementation for final status, but Sam wasn't in favor of making it mandatory.
  • They discussed a proposal’s viability, with Sam expressing concerns about its substance and potential use, yet agreeing to move it forward.
  • Github Handles: Regarding GitHub handles,Pooja proposed making adding GitHub handle of all co-authors mandatory, however Sam maintained that having at least one is sufficient for approval.
  • They also assessed several proposals, approving some while identifying necessary revisions, and agreed to continue reviews in future meetings.

PEEPanEIP

Released episodes

Recording scheduled

Upcoming releases

  • PEEPanEIP-7805: Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) In this PEEPanEIP recording, Pooja Ranjan, discussed EIP-7805, also known as FOCIL with co-authors Thomas, Francesco, Julian Barnabe who are part of the Ethereum Foundation's Robust Consensus Group. The proposal aims to allow a committee of validators to enforce included transactions in every block. The proposal is currently in draft status and is an active discussion for the future upgrade. The main goal of FOCIL is to increase the credible neutrality of Ethereum.
  • PEEPanEIP-7706: Separate gas type for calldata with Vitalik Buterin Vitalik discussed the concept of multi-dimensional gas pricing as a scaling strategy for Ethereum, proposing a separate gas limit for call data in EIP-7706. He also compared EIP-7623 and EIP-7706, highlighting the potential complexities and risks of implementing the latter. The conversation ended with discussions on the future of Ethereum, the importance of openness and decentralization, and the potential for user experience improvements.

EIP updates

Call For Input (Open)

(No change since the last week.)

Ecosystem Project Demo

  • EPD: OSObserve Rohit Malekar and Carl Cervone, from the Open Source Observer (OSO) team joined with EthCatHerders. They shared his background, the transition and involvement with the OSO team. The discussion then shifted to the role of OSO in tracking, analyzing, and supporting open source projects by offering real-time insights into their contribution and impact. The guests also discussed the global nature of open source and the need for better funding models, with crypto networks offering a new model for funding open source projects. Stay tuned for the recording coming out soon.

Upcoming Protocol Calls

Date & Time (UTC) Event Link
Monday, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:00 UTC eth_simulate Implementers' Meeting GitHub
Monday, Feb 10, 2025 at 14:00 UTC Pectra Interop Testing Call -
Monday, Feb 10, 2025 at 15:00 UTC Stateless Implementers Call #30 GitHub
Monday, Feb 10, 2025 at 16:30 UTC Portal Network Implementation GitHub
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025 at 14:00 UTC FOCIL Breakout #4 TBA
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025 at 21:00 UTC PEEPanEIP-7691: Blob throughput increase with Pari, Sam & Toni -
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 at 14:00 UTC RollCall #10 GitHub
Thursday, Feb 13, 2025 at 14:00 UTC All Core Dev Consensus #150 GitHub
Friday, Feb 14, 2025 at 14:00 UTC EIP-7732 breakout room TBA

Public Goods Funding

Events

Community Resources

Upcoming Reasearch

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