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All core devs

All core devs execution (ACDE) # 188 1716774932922870. Notes from 1716774932555937 and 1716774932739060:

Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade:

Discussion on when/what to ship:

EF testing team upgrade options, prefer splitting Pectra into two upgrades

Reth propose shipping a big upgrade in Q1 2025 with PeerDAS & EOF

Including EOF delas Pectra b 3 months, support from some EL teams & Solidit

EOF benchmarks show some reductions in code sie & gas

PeerDAS & blob sie increase priorities to be discussed b CL teams at ACDC, then finalie Pectra scope at next ACDE

EIP7702 replaces EIP3074, CFId, add to next devnet, breakout room needed to finalie spec (optional nonce & chain ID) before including in Pectra

Execution API proposal to optionall include return data in transaction receipts

Minimum priorit fee: Geth defaults to 1 gwei, evaluate lowering, no need to standardie

Using Portal networks histor network for histor expir

Client team interop (Kena) focused on Pectra, PeerDAS & Verkle:

Pectra-devnet-0 & peerdas-devnet-0 launched

EOF breakout: discussion on whether to include in Pectra & spec updates

PeerDAS: design simplifications

Histor expir plan

Centraliation watch: threatening the value of our ETH

Lido at 28.5% still too close to 33.3% threshold

Lido node operator (Numic) breach of dev machine with encrpted ke backups

Client diversit (via clientdiversit.org):

Execution laer: Geth 55% majorit

Consensus laer: Prsm 37%

An client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finalit

Better geographic diversit is optimal, particularl outside of North America & Europe

Laer 1

Data Alwas: min-bid setting effectiveness

Research

Anonmous Inclusion Lists (anon-ILs): distributed mechanism for anonmiing IL proposers

Client Releases

Consensus laer:

Nimbus v24.5.1: beacon & builder API improvements and fixes v24.5.0 compatibilit issue with certain hardware

Laer 2

Vitalik: Laer 2s vs execution sharding

L2BEAT proposed data availabilit risk framework

Taiko airdrop, eligible GitHub contributors need to bind an address

EIPs/Standards

EIPs:

EIP7709: Read BLOCKHASH from storage and update cost

EIP7713: Box tpes for EIP712 messages

RIPs (Rollup Improvement Proposals):

RIP7711: RIP7560 transactions bundle transaction tpe

RIP7712: Enable RIP7560 transactions using a two-dimensional nonce

ERCs (application laer):

ERC7710: Contract delegation interfaces

ERC7714: Simple permissions checks

ERC7715: Request permissions from wallets

Stuff for developers

Solidit v0.8.26: require with custom errors (via-IR onl), Yul optimier improved default sequence and JSON output format slightl changed

Remix v0.49: RemixAI improvements & TOML sntax highlighting

Foundr:

Reusable workflows for GitHub Actions

Merkle Multiproof (Solidit): generate inputs for OpenZeppelin MerkleProof librar for fu testing

Kontrol (formal verification) adds support for native Foundr cheatcode assertions

Snekmate (Vper): adds Halmos smbolic tests for ERC20/721/1155 & math contracts

Ape-AWS: Ape plugin to use AWS Ke Management Service & IAM access

Viem adds EIP4361 Sign-In with Ethereum support

EVM Diff: adds all chain comparison table to existing side b side compare

micro-eth-signer v0.9: fetch account histor & token balances from archive node, SSZ in 900 lines

Vacp2p stealth-address-kit v0.1: derived from ERC5564, Rust & C bindings

Securit

Gala Games $22M exploit via mint using admin access

SEAL wargame with Base & Optimism: simulated vulnerabilit in bridge withdrawals

Ecosstem

EF working on formal polic for potential conflicts of interest

Justin Drake & Dankrad Feist advising EigenFoundation

Devcon tickets go live in June

Job Listings

ChainSafe: Head of Protocol Engineering, DevRel - Sgma and more jobs

Privac and Scaling Explorations: bu sc

stakefish: DevOps Engineer & Full-stack Engineer

Onchain stats

Gas fees (via ultrasound.mone): 1.9 to 111.5 gwei, with 9.1 gwei average

Zero net issuance currentl at 23.3 gwei

11k ETH net issuance this week

ETHUSD: $3,063 - $3,913, currentl $3,723

ETHBTC: currentl 0.054 (Flippening at 0.16)

Notable at app laer

Optimism Retro Funding round 4: 10M OP for Superchain deploers

Yuga Labs to no longer touch Punks after Super Punk World backlash

Regulation/business/tokens

SEC approved eight spot ETH ETF proposals, the go live when S-1 approval occurs

US House passed FIT21 bill, would give CFTC jurisdiction over digital commodities

Its a bad bill et still a big victor

Genesis $2B settlement with New York Attorne General

General

Time-based crptograph from weaker assumptions: randomness beacons & dela functions

Kabosu (the Doge) passed awa

Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold) Ma 26 Ethereum Protocol Fellowship cohort 5 application deadline Ma 31-Jun 2 where to bu Ethereum Name Service hackathon & conference Ma 31-Jun 2 ETHPrague conference & hackathon Ma 31-Jun 5 ETH Belgrade conference & hackathon Jun 14 EF EIP4844 data challenge deadline Jun 21-23 ETHKiv hackathon & conference Jul 8-11 EthCC (Brussels) Jul 11-14 Pragma & ETHGlobal Brussels Jul 26-30 EDCON Toko conference Aug 2-4 Ethereum Argentina Aug 15-17 Ethereum Urugua hackathon & conference Aug 23-Sep 13 ETHGlobal ETHOnline (virtual) Aug 23-26 ETHToko hackathon & conference Aug 29-31 ETHAccra hackathon Sep 5-8 ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon Sep 9-15 ETHSafari (Kena) Sep 12-14 how to bu Enjin Coin (Napoli) Sep 20-22 ETHGlobal Singapore Sep 26-27 ETHMilan conference Oct 4-6 Ethereum Kuala Lumpur conference & hackathon Oct 4-6 ETHRome Oct 17-19 ETHSofia hackathon & conference Oct 18-20 how to bu Aleph Zero & ETHGlobal San Francisco Nov 12-15 Devcon 7 - Southeast Asia (Bangkok) Nov 15-17 ETHGlobal Bangkok hackathon