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 201st Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call. During the call, EF Developer Operations Engineer Parithosh Jayanthi highlighted three open pull requests (PR) for the Pectra Devnet 5 specification and requested the client teams to review them as soon as possible to finalize the Devnet 5 specification, as follows:EIP 7742, removing the blob limit between Cl and EL for each block (consensus);Adding EIP 7691, increasing blob throughput (consensus);Changes required for EIP 7742 (execution API).Core developer Tim Beiko stated that he would add EIP 7691 to the Pectra Meta EIP after the call. EF researcher Ansgar Dietrichs mentioned that he has identified the updated score for EIP 7691 and is ready to merge it into the Devnet 5 specification.Additionally, the developers have agreed to remove pre-Merge block body and receipt data by May 1, 2025.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 200th Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call, where developers shared the latest updates on Pectra Devnet and the next steps for PeerDAS Devnet; they also discussed short-term solutions to address Ethereum's historical growth issues and the removal of EIP 7610 from Pectra; additionally, the team plans to phase out Pectra Devnet 4 soon.

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 199th Ethereum Core Developer Execution (ACDE) conference call.This week, developers discussed and coordinated modifications to the Ethereum Execution Layer (EL) during the meeting, reaffirming the decision to include EIP 7742 in Pectra as a prerequisite for increasing blob capacity in the upgrade.Pectra Devnet 4 was launched on October 18, and Busa and his team will conduct further testing on the client on Devnet 4 in the coming weeks; additionally, developers discussed various specification changes that should be included in Pectra Devnet 5.

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 news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 198th Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call. This week, developers discussed EIP 7782 and 7783 that may be included in Pectra. The former proposes to shorten the slot time from 12 seconds to 8 seconds, while the latter suggests a new mechanism to increase the block gas fee limit.Developers have not yet decided whether to incorporate these two mechanisms into Pectra or future upgrades; the deadline for submitting Pectra system contract audit proposals is October 11, and accepted proposals will be confirmed by October 22 at the latest; developers decided to include the EIP 6110 update in Devnet 4; developers agreed to try to launch Pectra Devnet 4 before the Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call on October 17.Additionally, developers are considering names for the public Pectra testnet. Several naming suggestions proposed by community members include MooDeng and Khlong.

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 summarized the 141st Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call, with the main points including:The debugging work for Pectra devnet 2 is nearing completion;The release date for Pectra devnet 3 is yet to be determined;The client teams are testing their latest implementations locally;The release date for Peerdas devnet 2 is yet to be determined;There are still some unresolved issues regarding how to design Peerdas proof computation to be more friendly to home stakers and those running validators on low-spec hardware.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 192nd Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call, where developers shared their latest progress on implementing various code changes, including Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 7702 and the addition of the Ethereum Object Format (EOF) in Pectra. The EF Developer Operations team's "pk910" also shared updates on Pectra Devnet 1.Developers have differing views on EOF and decided to temporarily incorporate EOF into Pectra. Additionally, before making decisions on EIP 7742 or RIP 7212, developers should focus on the release of Pectra Devnet 1 and the development of EOF and EIP 7702.

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.