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.