ChainCatcher news, according to @ralexstokes' summary of the 157th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Layer Meeting (ACDC), the main topics discussed in this meeting included: Pectra (a review compiling the views of over 40 core developers, reflecting on the upgrade process and looking to the future; an analysis report is forthcoming after the addition of Blobs), Fusaka (peerdas-devnet-7 has been released and is running stably; the client team is currently focused on implementing BPO support; fusaka-devnet-0 is expected to go live on May 26; validator hosting aims to enhance the management of staking keys and validator credentials, improving security, modularity, and user experience. Due to complexity and unresolved issues, there is a risk of schedule delays that may affect the scope or release of Fusaka), and a proposal to create a new platform or upgrade Ethereum Magicians to lower the participation threshold for external contributors, etc.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 153rd Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call.This week, developers reaffirmed the Pectra testing plan and scheduled an upgrade for the newly launched Hoodi testnet on March 26; developers agreed to postpone the mainnet date for Pectra until they see the upgrade status of Hoodi and further testing of Pectra's features on Hoodi; additionally, developers discussed the inclusion of EIP 7688 in the Fusaka upgrade.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 152nd Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call.This week, developers agreed on a new strategy for testing Pectra based on the progress of the Holesky and Sepolia upgrades; developers will continue to work on restoring Holesky to a stable state, which is expected to take about three weeks; additionally, developers will initiate a Holesky shadow fork, inheriting the exact same state and on-chain environment as the original public testnet.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 151st Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call. During the meeting, developers discussed the client teams' readiness for the Pectra upgrade on the Holesky testnet and the follow-up work on PeerDAS Devnet 5. Developers also agreed to finalize EIP 7872, the maximum blob flag for local builders, and EIP 7870, hardware and bandwidth recommendations for validators and full nodes.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim posted a summary of the 150th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call. This week, developers agreed to leave a 30-day buffer between the last public testnet upgrade and the mainnet upgrade, allowing network stakeholders sufficient time to update their software; if the public testnet launches smoothly, the earliest activation time for Pectra on the Ethereum mainnet is early April, with developers estimating April 8; in addition, Pectra Devnet 6 launched on February 5. So far, the development network has been running smoothly without any major issues.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 149th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call.This week, developers discussed new vulnerabilities found on Pectra Devnet 5 and agreed to launch another development network before upgrading the public testnet; the developers established a tentative timeline for the activation of the Pectra mainnet, requesting client teams to release updated software by February 3, in order to activate Pectra on the Sepolia and Holesky testnets on February 12 and February 19, respectively; additionally, the developers plan to release the final Pectra software on March 11, 2025, to facilitate the mainnet upgrade.

ChainCatcher message, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 148th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call. This week, developers unanimously agreed that the name for the seventh CL (Ethereum Consensus Layer) fork or upgrade should be named after the star "Gloas"; EF engineer Parithosh Jayanthi pointed out an open issue in the CL specification that developers need to address before launching Pectra Devnet 5; additionally, the hive tests for EL and CL clients have been updated, and most clients performed well in these tests.

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, Nethermind researcher Aayush Giri published a summary of the 15th Starknet Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) call. This week, developers discussed the upgrade of the mainnet to version v0.13.3, equipped with Stateless Compression features to reduce mainnet costs; the network architecture is divided into three different layers; new methods to prevent remote consensus attacks; improvements in P2P message routing between nodes, etc.

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 summarized the 123rd Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call. The Cancun/Deneb upgrade was activated on November 30 on Devnet #12, and the Teku, Lodestar, and Lighthouse client software, along with all Execution Layer (EL) client software, are currently being tested on Devnet #12. Additionally, developers identified a validator exit issue on Devnet #11, which the Nimbus client team is addressing. Devnet #11 will continue to operate normally until the issue is resolved.Given that the CL client Prysm has not yet joined Devnet #12, developers agreed to postpone the planned Goerli shadow fork until the Prysm client software is ready for testing. Tim Beiko suggested launching the Goerli shadow fork sometime before the end of this year.Furthermore, developers discussed clarifying the specifications for "BlockByRoot" and "BlobSidecarsByRoot" requests to explicitly mention whether CL nodes should respond to these requests in a specific order.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 119th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Meeting (ACDC). This meeting primarily discussed the Cancun/Deneb test, specifically including the status and health of the latest developer-focused testnet Devnet-9, as well as the launch timeline for Devnet-10. Developers will reassess the testing progress of the Cancun/Deneb upgrade during the next ACD call and revisit the testing schedule.Additionally, she mentioned that regarding the launch timeline for Devnet-10, not all developers are confident that the next devnet can be launched within the next two weeks, especially considering that the client teams are still discovering and resolving bugs on Devnet-9; nor are all developers participating in the call confident about the commitment to upgrade the public Ethereum testnet Goerli before the Devconnect scheduled for mid-November.