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PeerDAS included in Pectra upgrade but with separate activation epoch, proposal to extend ENS to Laer 2 & Biden vetos congressional disapproval of SEC SAB 121

All core devs

All core devs consensus (ACDC) # 134. Notes from 1717384307522074:

Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade:

Discussion on when/what to ship:

Options included splitting Pectra (Lodestar proposal) or replacing EIPs with PeerDAS

EIP7594 PeerDAS: included in Pectra but with separate activation epoch to allow moving to a later upgrade if needed

Blob sie increase: no decision (blob target of 3 reached this week)

EIP7688 change SSZ data to StableContainer: no decision, discuss at next ACDC, need more implementation progress

Tim Beiko: process improvement proposals for All Core Devs, network upgrades & Eth Magicians, discuss at next ACDE

1717384307477971 (Prague + Electra) upgrade

Future of EOA/AA breakout # 3: EIP7702 refinements to be merged, next breakout June 5 to discuss potential changes, ERC-standardied prox contract & wallet best practices

1717384307442034 upgrade

Verkle progress, best case 2025

Centraliation watch: threatening the value of our ETH

Lido increased to 29%, too close to 33.3% threshold

Client diversit (via clientdiversit.org):

Execution laer: Geth 55% majorit

Consensus laer: Prsm 38%

An client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finalit

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

Laer 1

Pter Silgi: full node space requirements, 800GB for blocks & receipts + 250GB for active state & Geth snapshots

Proposed issuance reduction FAQ

Blob impact on reorgs, increasing b 2.3 blobs increases reorg probabilit to 0.59%

Gossipsup performance in P2P, average effectiveness ratio is more than 1:10 across topics

Terence: delaed execution, benefit of pipelining consensus & execution in ePBS

Client Releases

Execution laer:

Besu v24.5.2: default Bonsai storage mode to use code storage b code hash & use flat db and new RPC methods to get/set vanit extra data in a built block

For Stakers

Obol staking master program to develop educational leaders

Laer 2

Base gas target increased to 7.5 Mgas/s

OP Stack custom gas token, beta

Taiko live, plans to become optimistic-k hbrid based rollup

L2BEAT: Laer 3 projects TVL

Ed Felten: selling MEV separatel can give more revenue than shared MEV auctions

Vitalik: Laer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum

EIPs/Standards

EIPs:

EIP7716: Anti-correlation attestation penalties

ERCs (application laer):

ERC7717: Deterministic AA wallet

Stuff for developers

Compiler fingerprinting using btecode-specific heuristics

Runtime Verification Simbolik: Solidit debugger VS Code extension, private beta

0xngmi Etherscan verification: verif an alread verified contract on another chain

RareSkills: guide to ABI encoding for function calls

Ape v0.8.0 (Pthon contract framework): major refactor

Tevm (Tpescript EVM toolkit): in browser devnet & Solidit _script_ing

TracEVM: track values & addresses of slots in a contract

R55: Rust contract compiled to RISCV btecode run inside an execution client

CTFs:

OpenZeppelin Ethernaut new level: Stake

Red Guild: devcontainers, preconfigured dev sandbox in a Docker container

Securit

Normie token exploit on Base, via transfer function check for balance matching team wallet

Ecosstem

ETHBerlin hackathon winners

Devcon supporter program to assist impact teams with free tickets

Job Listings

Alchem - Wallet Services: Engineering Manager and Full-Stack Engineer

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

Privac and Scaling Explorations: ZK Circuits Engineer

Onchain stats

Gas fees (via ultrasound.mone): 2.1 to 75.6 gwei, with 10.4 gwei average

Zero net issuance currentl at 23.3 gwei

9k ETH net issuance this week

ETHUSD: $3,712 - $3,959, currentl $3,758

ETHBTC: currentl 0.056 (Flippening at 0.16)

Notable at app laer

ENS Labs ENSv2 proposal to extend to Laer 2 (either select an L2 or create their own)

Uniswap Foundation postpone fee reward vote

MEV scanner: reports amount of MEV for an address via website, X/Telegram/Discord bot

Regulation/business/tokens

Biden vetos congressional disapproval of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 that precluded banks offering crpto custod

Democrats still doing anti crpto actions, despite recent campaign outreach

SEC ordered to pa $1.8M in legal expenses for bad faith crpto lawsuit

US Treasur NFT risk assessment, rarel used for terrorist financing, susceptible to use in fraud/scams & being stolen

SEC Commissioner Peirce proposes opening UK sandbox to US

Former FTX executive Ran Salame sentenced to 7.5 ears

Matter Labs (kSnc) applied for ZK trademark

General

Vitalik: Bitcoin block sie war reflections, embrace new tech or stagnate

SPDZ: colab notebook for generic MPC scheme split into preprocessing & online phases

Length Extension Attacks: hash functions using MerkleDamgrd construction are vulnerable

Ticketmaster data breach via third-part cloud database provider

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