Summary of the latest meeting of Ethereum core developers: A new testnet will be launched next week, and Consensys has completed fork selection testing
On July 11, all core developers of Ethereum participated in the 137th All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call.Original Title: “Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call #137 Writeup”
Author: Christine Kim
Compiled by: Ladyfinger, BlockBeats
Editor’s Note: The Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call (ACDC) is held biweekly, primarily to discuss and coordinate changes to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL). This is the 137th ACDC call, which covered topics such as the progress of Pectra Devnet 1 and PeerDAS Devnet 1.
During the meeting, Barnabas Busa stated that the CL client team is working on fixing bugs from PeerDAS Devnet 1. Galaxy Digital’s Vice President of Research, Christine Kim, took detailed notes on the key points of the meeting, which BlockBeats has compiled as follows:
On July 11, 2024, Ethereum developers held the 137th Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) meeting via Zoom. The ACDC meetings are a series held every two weeks where developers discuss and coordinate changes to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL), also known as the Beacon Chain. This week’s meeting was hosted by Ethereum Foundation (EF) researcher Alex Stokes. Developers discussed the progress of Pectra Devnet 1 and PeerDAS Devnet 1, as well as research generated by the fork choice testing led by the TxRx research team within blockchain software company Consensys.
Pectra Devnet 1
The consensus layer and execution layer clients are ready to launch Pectra Devnet 1. Developers expect to launch the next testnet next week. A developer named “pk910” mentioned that his team, likely the EF DevOps team, is testing combinations of clients among Nethermind, Geth, Teku, Nimbus, Lodestar, and Grandine. EthereumJS and Lodestar developer Gajinder Singh subsequently pointed out that the EthereumJS client is ready for testing on Pectra Devnet 1.
PeerDAS Devnet 1
EF DevOps engineer Barnabas Busa stated that the CL client team is fixing bugs from PeerDAS Devnet 1. Once all client fixes are completed, Busa indicated that developers plan to restart PeerDAS Devnet 1 over the weekend. Stokes shared an update on his pull request (PR) regarding changing the hardcoded blob gas limits on EL and CL. He mentioned that he is working to define the impact of this PR on CL and EL and formalize it into an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) for potential inclusion in the Pectra upgrade.
Fork Choice Testing Update
Consensys’s TxRX research team has implemented the initial version of their fork choice testing generator. This testing generator is designed to identify bugs in client software that may lead to chain splits, as well as any areas where client software deviates from CL specifications in non-trivial ways. This research is funded by the EF. The team, represented by Alexander Vlasov and Mikhail Kalinin, requested feedback on their work during the call as they seek to refine the test suite and achieve more flexible test generation. More information about the fork choice testing generator can be found here.
