ChainCatcher news, summarized by Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim, highlighted that the 147th Ethereum Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) meeting focused on the advancement plan for Pectra Devnet 5. The Mekong network (based on the Pectra Devnet 4 specifications) is running stably, with no new issues reported.Developers suggested removing the GAS limit for validator modification blocks to avoid consensus failures and decided to remove EIP 7742, simplifying the Pectra upgrade process by increasing the Blob count through modifications to the genesis configuration. The team plans to complete the deployment of Pectra Devnet 5 by the end of the year and continue optimizing related EIPs and specifications.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 145th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call.This week, developers discussed the proposed changes to the Pectra specification to be included in Pectra Devnet 5; there were no major issues with Pectra Devnet 4, and the team has implemented various fixes to allow all users to propose blocks on the development network; Peer DAS Devnet 3 has been closed after a reorganization of 100,000 slots; it is unlikely that the team will launch a new Peer DAS development network before the Ethereum developer conference Devcon concludes.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the main points of the 144th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Meeting (ACDC #144):Developers agreed to include a new code change EIP 7742 in Pectra, which allows the beacon chain to dynamically set the network's target and maximum blob gas limits. The inclusion of EIP 7742 indicates that developers may also increase the target and maximum blob gas limits in Pectra. However, some developers raised concerns during the call that incorporating additional EIPs (especially EIP 7742) would delay the activation of other Pectra code changes on the mainnet. Developers also discussed the testing progress of Pectra and PeerDAS development.L2 rollup Base developer Francis Li introduced the urgency and fundamental principles of increasing blob capacity in Pectra. Li suggested increasing the blob gas target to 5 and the maximum to 8, along with additional work at the network layer, such as implementing engine_getBlobsV1. Busa pointed out that the increase in blob capacity should be combined with the deployment of EIP 7742, which introduces a mechanism to dynamically set blob gas targets and maximum limits through CL. Busa stated that the current mechanism for setting these parameters is difficult to change, and introducing EIP 7742 would ensure that developers can easily adjust these settings in the future, such as upgrades like PeerDAS. However, Busa also noted that EIP 7742 requires additional work from the EL and CL client teams for deployment and could delay Pectra's timeline by 1 to 2 months. He urged developers to consider starting the work on deploying EIP 7742 as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary delays in the Pectra upgrade.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 144th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call.This week, developers discussed and coordinated modifications to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL). Developers agreed to incorporate EIP 7742 changes into Pectra, allowing the beacon chain to dynamically set the network's target and maximum Blob Gas fee limits; EF developer operations engineer Barnabas Busa stated that he plans to shut down Pectra Devnet 3 immediately; currently, Geth and Ethereum JS clients are ready, and the Lighthouse, Teku, and Nimbus clients on the CL side are also ready.

ChainCatcher message, the Galaxy official website released the summary of the 143rd Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developers Conference (ACDC). This meeting mainly discussed:Pectra Devnet 3 update (debugging work is still ongoing)Pectra Devnet 4 preparation status (discussion on simplifying requests triggered by EL and delegating them to CL for parsing, etc.)PeerDAS Devnet update (the latest PeerDAS devnet is facing issues with achieving finality, a restart may be necessary)Update on the implementation of "engine_getBlobsV1" (aimed at helping low-bandwidth validators propose blocks in a timely manner, client teams are working on implementing this method, Stokes emphasized that this is the current top priority)Discussion on increasing blob throughput (some developers suggested first increasing the target number of blobs, and then adjusting based on analysis results)In addition, most developers support the proposal of EIP 7742, which decouples the blob counting between CL and EL.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 142nd Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call. This week, developers discussed the decision to split the Pectra upgrade into two hard forks, developers have begun fuzz testing on Pectra Devnet 3, communicated pending issues related to Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) on Pectra Devnet 3, and a developer of the Base Rollup protocol, known by the pseudonym Francis, submitted an analysis report to support increasing the Blob Gas target for the first part of the Pectra upgrade.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 141st Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call.This week, developers discussed modifications to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL), various updates to the consensus layer specifications and engine API in the Pectra upgrade (including EIP7251 and Beacon block body, etc.), and how to address the proof computation issues for resource-constrained node operators (primarily Home Stakers) in PeerDAS. PeerDAS Devnet2 is expected to be rebuilt on the basis of the Pectra upgrade, rather than Deneb.

ChainCatcher news, summarized by Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim, reports that Ethereum developers held the 140th All Core Developers Consensus Call (ACDC).The meeting was chaired by Ethereum Foundation researcher Alex Stokes, discussing topics such as the development progress of the Pectra upgrade, PeerDAS, and the naming of the next Ethereum consensus layer upgrade. The developers decided to name this upgrade "Fulu" and plan to use "Fusaka" to refer to the "Fulu-Osaka" upgrade in the future.Additionally, the meeting also addressed technical issues in the Pectra development network and the progress of proposals such as EIP 7742.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the main points from the 139th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Meeting (ACDC #139). Debugging for Devnet 2 of the Pectra upgrade is ongoing, and the release date for Devnet 3 is yet to be determined; developers will hold weekly testing update meetings starting Monday to better coordinate the release of Pectra's Devnet; the decision to include EIP-7688 in the Pectra upgrade has been postponed again.

ChainCatcher news, according to Christine Kim's summary of the 137th Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDC), this ACDC discussed the progress of Pectra Devnet 1 and PeerDAS Devnet 1, as well as the fork choice testing generation research led by the Consensys research team TxRx.Regarding Pectra Devnet 1, both CL and EL clients are ready, with a testnet launch expected next week. The EF development operations team is testing various client combinations, and the EthereumJS client is ready for testing.As for PeerDAS Devnet 1, EF DevOps engineer Barnabas Busa stated that the CL client team is fixing bugs and plans to restart this weekend. Stokes updated on the pull request to modify the hardcoded blob gas limit on EL and CL, and plans to formalize it as an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP).The TxRx research team has implemented the initial version of the fork choice testing generator, aimed at identifying client software bugs that could lead to chain splits, and is requesting feedback to refine the test suite.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim posted a summary of the 115th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Meeting (ACDC), stating that Devnet 8 will be launched early next week. This will be the first dedicated testnet containing all finalized EIPs for the Cancun/Deneb upgrade. Additionally, the Holesky testnet will be launched at the end of September this year, featuring 1.4 million validators, which is twice the size of the mainnet.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized that Ethereum core developers held the 110th All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call this week. The developers discussed and coordinated changes to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL) during the meeting.This week, Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist presented data experiment results regarding the Ethereum mainnet nodes' ability to propagate large amounts of data. Based on his findings, he suggested increasing the EIP 4844 specification from a maximum of 4 blobs per block to 6.Additionally, the CL client team is considering incorporating EIP 4788 into the Deneb upgrade. Reportedly, EIP 4788 introduces a trust-minimized way for smart contracts and decentralized applications (dapps) to access information such as CL and validator balances, activities, and rewards. (source link)