ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the key points from the 198th Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call:Developers are debugging Pectra Devnet 3;Developers plan to launch Pectra Devnet 4 before next Thursday (October 17);There are 2 new EIPs in Pectra for consideration, namely EIP7782 and EIP7783, both aimed at improving L1 scalability.

ChainCatcher message, Optimism stated on social media that the Optimism Collective has awarded 8,519,578 OP to Ethereum core developers through Retro Funding so far.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum core developers announced the launch of EIP-7732, which is the official specification for Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS). EIP-7732 is an upgrade that is solely at the consensus layer, separating execution validation from consensus validation and directly embedding PBS into Ethereum's consensus layer. PBS refers to the separation of block proposers and builders. EIP-7732 includes modifications to the beacon chain, fork choice rules, and P2P communication, and allows validators to act as builders. Builders are complex participants who construct blocks to extract MEV.ePBS provides a trustless exchange between proposers and builders, enabling validators to effectively utilize CPU. The implementation features a Payload Timeliness Committee (PTC), which votes on the timeliness of payloads published by builders, consisting of a subset of the validator committee. The design of EIP-7732 is also compatible with future upgrades, such as inclusion lists.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko stated on social media that the mailing list provider used by the Ethereum Foundation, "updates@ethereum.org," is suspected to have been compromised.Currently, they are in contact with SendPulse to resolve the issue. Please do not click on any links in that email.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum core developers have agreed to include the EVM Object Format (EOF) in the upcoming Pectra upgrade. As described in EIP-7692, EOF involves about 11 EIPs that provide an optional container for EVM code to improve code verification and introduce new features.If EOF becomes a blocking factor, it will be separated into a different fork to ensure that Pectra can proceed without significant delays. EOF will not be part of the initial version of devnet 1. The Pectra upgrade will also include the account abstraction standard EIP-7702 proposed by Vitalik Buterin. Overall, Pectra is considered a comprehensive upgrade, planned to include 19 EIPs, making it one of the broadest upgrades in Ethereum's history.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 132nd Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call. This week, developers discussed the preparations for the first Pectra developer test network (Pectra Devnet 0) and reviewed related specifications and two research projects. Developers also discussed unresolved issues related to EIP-7251, EIP-7549, and Electra.In response to these issues, developers proposed solutions and plan to finalize them within the week. Additionally, developers discussed a new EIP aimed at creating a universal EL request to simplify the message transmission process.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Ethereum developers have launched a new initiative aimed at raising the long-term static Gas fee limit of the Ethereum blockchain network, stating that this change could help scale Ethereum.Ethereum core developer Eric Connor and former head of smart contracts at MakerDAO Mariano Conti have launched a new website called "pump the gas," aiming to increase Ethereum's Gas fee limit from 30 million to 40 million, stating that this will reduce Layer 1 transaction costs."This could lead to a reduction in Layer 1 transaction costs by 15% to 33%." Connor said in an article on March 19, "We call on independent stakers, client teams, mining pools, and community members to provide assistance."