Your Weekly Dose of Blockchain Updates and Meows!
Summary
Welcome to the sixth edition of the Purr-suit of Ethereum! If you missed our last edition, you can catch up here. This week, we bring you the latest on the Pectra and Fusaka upgrades, ongoing client testing & research efforts, updates on public goods funding, and a roundup of upcoming Ethereum events and ecosystem developments. Stay informed, get involved, and continue contributing to the Ethereum community!
Summary
- ACDbot is coming in soon!
- Pectra Upgrade: Devnet-6 is running smoothly; testnet upgrades on Holesky (Feb 24) and Sepolia (Mar 5) before mainnet activation.
- Fusaka Upgrade: Proposal deadline March 13, review by March 27, final scope by April 10.
- Testing & Breakouts: PeerDAS-devnet-4 live, EOF & ePBS testing progressing, multiple breakout calls scheduled.
- EIPs & Grants: 3 new drafts, 13 EIPs in Last Call, ESP’s Pectra Proactive Grant Round open.
Pectra (Prague+Electra) Upgrade
- Devnet-6 is running smoothly, with the MEV workflow being tested end to end.
- PEEPanEIP - Pectra
- Holesky Pectra Upgrade Testnet Livestream
- Testnet countdown
- Pectra Proactive Grant Round by ESP
Pectra testnet announcement
It will go live on
- Holesky at epoch 115968 (Feb. 24, 21:55 UTC) and
- Sepolia at epoch 222464 (Mar. 5, 7:29 UTC). Once both testnets have successfully upgraded, a mainnet activation epoch will be chosen.
Once both testnets have successfully upgraded, a mainnet activation epoch will be chosen.
Pectra has already been activated on Ephemery, a staking testnet which resets every 28 days. Read more about Ephemery testnet here.
Client releases for the Pectra upgrade on both Holesky and Sepolia.
| Name | Version | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Grandine | 1.0.0 | Download |
| Lighthouse | 7.0.0-beta.0 | Download |
| Lodestar | 1.27.0 | Download |
| Nimbus | 25.2.0 | Download |
| Prysm | 5.3.0 | Download |
| Teku | 25.2.0 | Download |
| Besu | 25.2.0 | Download |
| Erigon | 2.61.1 | Download |
| go-ethereum | 1.15.1 | Download |
| Nethermind | 1.31.0 | Download |
| Reth | 1.2.0 | Download |
Fusaka (Fulu + Osaka) Upgrade
Fusaka Fork scoping timeline:
- March 13: Fusaka
Proposed for Inclusiondeadline- To do so, open a PR against EIP-7607
- March 27: Deadline for core devs & researchers to review PFI’d EIPs and share their preferences async
- Any format is OK, but please link write ups in the EIP-7607 EthMagicians thread
- April 10: Tentative deadline to finalize Fusaka’s scope.
Execution Layer Meeting 205
- Recording
- Audio only on EthCatHerders's Podcast. Check ACD Playlist and RSS Feed can be obtained from here.
- Ethereum All Core Developers Execution Call #205 Writeup by @Christine_dkim
- Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDE) #205 by @yashkamalchaturvedi
Client testing call #24, February 10, 2025
Key Decisions & Next Steps
- Going ahead with testnet Pectra forks: Announcement in ACD channel; client teams should prepare for releases. Dates can be found here 7.
- Tx Pool Tests: Testing team is currently working on them.
- PeerDAS: PeerDAS-devnet-4 is now live, planning for future devnets has started.
- EOF Testing: Kurtosis-based testing now works, EEST is going to be used to trigger bugs at the start.
- ePBS & IL Testing: Proceed with standalone domain testing before considering mainnet inclusion. Kurtosis integration is complete.
Breakout & Implementers’ Meeting
Beam Call #1
EIP-7732 Breakout Room #16
L2 Interop Working Group Call #3
FOCIL Breakout # 4
- Recording & Notes
- PEEPanEIP-7805: Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) with Thomas and Julian
PeerDAS Breakout Room #17
RollCall #10 [2025-02-12]
Portal Implementers Call #44
Stateless Implementers Call #30
- Stateless Ethereum Information Page is a new website of public explanation about Ethereum's stateless benefits.
- Follow the Stateless team on X to get updates about Ethereum's stateless efforts.
- Recording & Recap
eth_simulate Implementers' Meeting Feb 10, 2025
- Recording & ECH's Notes
- The next meeting is scheduled for February 17, 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
EIPs Update
EIPsInsight
EIPs (Ethereum Improvement Proposals)
- 3 Draft added
- 2 moved to Stagnant
- 1 moved to Review
- 13 advanced to Last Call: All Pectra upgrade EIPs included.
ERCs (Ethereum Request for Comments)
- 2 Draft added
- 2 moved to Review
- 1 advanced to Last Call:
- ERC-7627: Secure Messaging Protocol (Deadline: February 18, 2025)
- 1 finalized:
RIPs (Rollup Improvement Proposals)
- 1 Draft added:
PEEPanEIP & Ecosystem Project Demo
Released episodes
Recording scheduled
- ERC-7527: Token Bound Function Oracle AMM with Elaine Zhang on Tuesday Feb 18, 2025 at 19:30 UTC
Upcoming releases
- PEEPanEIP-7706: Separate gas type for calldata with Vitalik Buterin
Ecosystem Project Demo
Recording scheduled
- EPD: Octant v2 with James on Thursday Feb 20, 2025 at 19:30 UTC
Upcoming releases
- EPD: OSObserve with Rohit Malekar and Carl Cervone
Upcoming Protocol Calls
- Mev-boost community call #12 on 19 Feb 2025 at 16:00 UTC
Public Goods Funding
- EthCatHerders participating in Giveth's upcoming round.
- Currently we're not eligible for GIVbacks or to be boosted with GIVpower. Please signal your support using DeVouch and help verify our legitimacy.
- Holonym Foundation Acquires Gitcoin Passport and Launches human.tech
- Octant Sweepstake & Climate Round
Events
- ETHDenver 2025: February 23 - March 2, 2025
- Staking Summit, Dubai: April 28 - 29, 2025
- ETHPrague 2025 - 27-29 May 2025
- EthCC[8]: June 30 -July 3, 2025
- Devconnect 2025: Expected in Q4-2025. Exact date - TBD. Should you have improvement suggestions, share with the team - Improving Devconnect 2025
- Follow the list of upcoming events by Nathan Sexer
Community Resources
- WiEP - Study Group (Cohort 3) Launch
- EF Ecosystem Support Program
- The 2025 Academic Grants Round is still open, with $2M in funding available for innovative research across a wide range of domains. Submit your applications by March 16!
- EF Treasury has deployed on Ethereum DeFi.
- Unichain mainnet is live
- Introducing Lido V3
Upcoming Research
- Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin
- The Road Towards a Distributed Encrypted Mempool on Ethereum by Frederik Lührs, Luis Bezzenberger, Francesco Mosterts, Sebastian Faust, Andreas Erwig
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