The 120th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Meeting: Discussion and Coordination on Changes to the Ethereum Consensus Layer

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 120th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDE) conference call, where developers discussed and coordinated changes to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL). This week, developers discussed CL specification version 1.4.0-beta.3, the launch conditions for Devnet-10, and blob delay analysis conducted by software developer Gajinder Singh, who maintains the Lodestar and EthereumJS clients.

A new CL code specification for the Cancun/Deneb (Dencun) upgrade was released, referred to as "The Summoning," officially tagged as version 1.4.0-beta.3 in the CL GitHub repository, including the following two major changes: mainnet KZG configuration and new gossip rules.

Regarding Devnet-10, changes in CL specification version 1.4.0-beta.3 will be tested on Devnet-10. There are some obstacles to the launch of Devnet-10, waiting for the client teams to release new software. Once ready, it is hoped that Devnet-10 will be launched at some point on October 20 (as of now, it has not been launched).

Representatives from the Prysm and Lighthouse client teams indicated that they would release updated versions of their software before October 20. Regarding blob delay analysis, based on Gajinder Singh's experiments on Devnet-9, the more blobs received by validators, the significantly greater the block delay. Ryan encouraged another CL team to attempt to reproduce Singh's experiment on Devnet-9 to see if they could achieve similar values and results.