Ethereum core developers: The release of Devnet #8 will be delayed until the new 4788 specification is implemented

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko summarized the latest Ethereum core developer execution meeting on Discord. During the meeting, developers agreed to continue using regular contracts with system write transactions instead of precompiled ones. Before the test call on Monday, developers will attempt to: (1) agree on a deployment plan (as part of a fork or manually deployed before the fork); (2) agree on the first contract implementation to be used; (3) submit a PR to the 4788 specification reflecting this situation.

Once the developers reach consensus on the contract, the audit/formal verification process will be initiated; the meeting decided to postpone the release of Devnet #8 until the new 4788 specification is implemented; regarding EIP-6780, the merge to "add clarification on EIP-6780" will continue; concerning the Engine API, it was agreed to add blobGasUsed and blobGasPrice to the receipts of 4844 transactions. Developers will also modify the PR to mention that the Dencun upgrade must use forkChoiceUpdateV3, and then merge it into "clarify early API handling of Cancun payloads; reorder check #426"; regarding the large validator testnet, the EF development team has launched a development network with 2.1 million validators, with a client distribution similar to the mainnet, and will work with client teams to check and fix issues related to finalization and block gossip before the Holesky launch. Holesky is planned to have about 1.5 million validators.

Additionally, developers introduced and discussed two account abstraction EIP proposals, namely EIP 5806 and 7377. Guillaume Ballet and Josh Rudolf presented the latest updates on Verkle.