The latest Ethereum core developer consensus meeting: A dedicated short-term test network Devnet #7 will launch EIP-4844

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 112th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Meeting. This week, developers discussed including a builder override flag in the Engine API, raising the target blob limit from 2 to 3, increasing the maximum blob limit from 4 to 6, and ongoing research around changing the maximum effective balance of validators. The increase in blob capacity was proposed by Dankrad Feist from the Ethereum Foundation after conducting data experiments to test the network's capacity for handling large blocks.

Parithosh Jayanthi from the Ethereum Foundation DevOps team stated that all EL and CL client teams have passed the relevant Hive tests for Devnet #7. His team plans to launch Devnet #7 as early as June 30 or July 3. Devnet #7 is a dedicated short-term test network for EIP-4844 and will not test other code changes.

Additionally, developers are preparing to deprecate the public Goerli test network by the end of this year. To replace Goerli, the Ethereum client teams are launching a new testnet called Holesky, which will host an active validator set larger than both Goerli and the Ethereum mainnet. (Source link)