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ChainCatcher message, Ethereum developers discussed several important topics at the All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #223 meeting held on October 23. The meeting confirmed that the Fusaka testnet is progressing smoothly, with a participation rate of 99%, and all client teams are involved.At the request of @ralexstokes, the development team has moved the Fusaka BPO1 date from the originally scheduled December 17 to December 9. Meanwhile, the Glamsterdam development network update shows that BAL is currently running locally, with the BAL development network expected to launch tomorrow. The meeting also discussed the best methods to improve Gas accuracy, with a dedicated breakout session planned for next Wednesday.

ChainCatcher news, the summary of the 222nd Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developer Meeting (ACDE) by Christine Kim shows that regarding the Fusaka upgrade, developers have initiated a shadow fork of the Sepolia testnet in preparation for the Sepolia upgrade, which is still scheduled for October 14.The meeting focused on the follow-up upgrade proposal codenamed Glamsterdam, which is the next major network upgrade following Fusaka. For Glamsterdam, developers have planned three key changes: 1. Block-level access lists (EIP 7928), with a multi-client testnet expected to launch next week; 2. Gas pricing reform, including a storage tax mechanism (EIP 8032) aimed at curbing state growth through dynamic pricing; 3. A new opcode (EIP 7791) that supports converting Gas directly to ETH. Additionally, the meeting clarified the proposal deadline for Glamsterdam, which will be one week after the Fusaka mainnet date is determined. The Holesky testnet is confirmed to be deprecated by the end of this month.

ChainCatcher message, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized that during the 221st Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developer Meeting (ACDE), developers discussed the upcoming upgrade of the Fusaka public testnet, which is expected to be activated on October 1. Currently, there are still 4 client teams that have not released the relevant versions.After the testnet upgrade is completed, the Fusaka mainnet client will adjust the default block Gas limit to 60 million Gas. In addition, the EthPandaOps team plans to launch the Holesky shadow fork tomorrow.

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, Ethereum developers confirmed the latest optimistic timeline for the Fusaka upgrade at the ACDE #220 meeting. If testing goes smoothly, the mainnet is expected to go live as early as November.Currently, Fusaka Devnet-3 still has issues such as low participation rates, and the development team is fixing related APIs. Fusaka Devnet-5 has been launched and will be used for blob parameter analysis. The testnet upgrade schedule includes Holesky on September 29, Sepolia on October 13, and Hoodi on October 27. The mainnet upgrade date will be determined after the progress of the testnet.

ChainCatcher message, Tim Beiko summarized the 219th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDE), the main contents of this meeting are:Fusaka development network progress: Devnet 3 is expected to be completed today, the consensus layer team is fixing synchronization issues, and if all goes well, Devnet 5 will be launched;Decommissioning Holesky: Plans to decommission Holesky a few weeks after Fusaka is activated on Holesky, and a public post will be released to explain the timeline and migration guidance;Gas Limit: The goal is to reach 60 million before the Fusaka upgrade;Glamsterdam update: Future meetings will prioritize discussing client-requested PFI matters, etc.

ChainCatcher news, the minutes of the 216th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDE) summarized by Christine Kim show that today the developers decided to remove EIP 7907 from the Fusaka upgrade, which means that there will be no changes to the Ethereum smart contract code size limit in the foreseeable future.A version of this EIP may be reintroduced for the Glamsterdam hard fork, but there is no guarantee that it will be included in the next hard fork.Additionally, Tim Beiko shared a possible timeline for the mainnet launch of Fusaka during the meeting. The proposed timeline is as follows: 1. Public testnet release: the week of August 25; 2. First public testnet upgrade: September 22 to October 3; 3. Second testnet upgrade: October 6 to 10. Furthermore, the developers plan to launch Fusaka Devnet-3 on July 23.Regarding the Glamsterdam hard fork, the developers have generally reached a consensus on the planned implementations. However, they are still discussing several key issues regarding how to specifically implement the "proposer-builder separation solidification mechanism" and "block-level access lists."After further soliciting broader opinions from the Ethereum community, the developers plan to make a final decision on the core code changes in the Glamsterdam upgrade within the next two to four weeks.

ChainCatcher message, summarizing Tim Beiko's report on the 213th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDE). The main topics discussed in this meeting included: delaying the increase of the Gas Limit to 60M (waiting for Berlinterop testing to provide specific throughput and latency data. In the worst case, it takes about 3 seconds to execute); brainstorming for Glamsterdam. FOCIL is implemented in five clients, aiming to resist mempool censorship. EVM64 promises faster execution speeds through 64-bit algorithms; benchmark testing is yet to be determined, among other topics.

ChainCatcher news, according to Tim Beiko's summary of the 212th Ethereum execution layer core developer meeting (ACDE), the main topics discussed in this meeting included: Fusaka Devnet-0 will go live on May 26, discussions on the Fusaka EIP scope (EIP-7825 will set the transaction Gas limit to 30 M; EIP-7918 will anchor Blob fees to Base Fee to mitigate fee fluctuations; both will be included in Devnet-1.Other candidate EIPs are expected for the Devnet-2 testnet strategy (first fork Sepolia, retain Hoodi for application testing; encourage the community to maintain a long-term testnet), future plans (next week CL Call will decide on EIP-7917; two weeks later ACDE will finalize Devnet-2 and start discussions on Glamsterdam), etc.

ChainCatcher news, according to Tim Beiko's summary, the 209th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDE) focused on the upcoming Pectra and Fusaka upgrades. The Pectra client is expected to be released on April 21, adding EIP-7702 for delegated state to JSON-RPC.Regarding Fusaka, it is confirmed to include EIP-7823 (limiting MODEXP complexity), EIP-7825 (transaction gas limit), and EIP-7907 (contract code size measurement and limit increase); EIP-7762 and EIP-7918 will be selectively adopted in the blob fee mechanism to balance resource utilization and market supply and demand.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 205th Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call. This week, developers expect that if the public testnet upgrade goes smoothly, Pectra will go live on the Ethereum mainnet around April 8; developers confirmed the timeline for the Ethereum public testnet upgrade, with the team scheduled to release the software activating the Pectra upgrade on Holesky and Sepolia on February 24 and March 5, respectively; developers then discussed Beiko's proposal to lock the scope of the next Ethereum upgrade, Fusaka, before Pectra goes live on the Ethereum mainnet.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum developers stated in the 204th Core Developer Execution Layer meeting (ACDE) that due to a new consensus bug in Pectra Devnet 5 affecting the Nethermind client, the developers decided to postpone the determination of the specific upgrade time for the public testnet.The Nethermind team stated that the bug caused by BLS precompile optimization has been fixed and will not affect the launch of Devnet 6. Developers plan to revisit the testnet upgrade timing in next week's ACD meeting. Additionally, the meeting discussed a security vulnerability affecting the Geth client, which could impact Ethereum's peer-to-peer layer and Layer-2 scaling solutions. Nodes running Geth version 1.14 and above need to update to the latest version immediately.The Pectra upgrade schedule is as follows:Week of February 3: Launch Devnet 6;February 6 (Thursday): Next ACD meeting to decide on the upgrade timing for Holesky and Sepolia testnets;February 10-11 (Monday or Tuesday): Official announcement of the testnet upgrade;Around February 19: Holesky testnet upgrade;February 20: Developer meeting to decide on Ethereum mainnet upgrade timing;Around February 26: Sepolia testnet upgrade (planned about a week after Holesky upgrade);February 27-28: Release final version of mainnet upgrade;Mid-March: Ethereum mainnet upgrade.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 203rd Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call, which discussed the release and specification updates of Pectra Devnet 5, the testing plan for increased gas fee limits on the Holesky testnet, RPC standardization efforts, and minimum node hardware and bandwidth requirements.EF Developer Operations Engineer Parithosh Jayanthi mentioned that a gas fee estimation issue was discovered on Devnet 5 and plans to collect logs to share in the R&D Discord channel. Developers also reached a preliminary consensus on several EIP updates and established a timeline for the Pectra upgrade testnet and mainnet, aiming to complete the mainnet upgrade by March 2025.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 202nd Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call. This week, developers discussed the Pectra specification updates affecting EIP 7742, EIP 7702, EIP 2537, and EIP 2935; they also discussed the rollout plan for removing pre-merge historical data from clients and non-Pectra EIPs, requiring feedback from developers.In addition, the team is making progress in implementing Pectra Devnet 5.

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 key points from the 201st Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference call:The formal confirmation of Pectra's inclusion in EIP 7691 will double the blob capacity;The EIP 7623, which increases calldata costs, has also been included;The EIP 7762, which increases the minimum blob base fee, has not been included (more discussion may occur in the next ACD);The EIP 7639, which stops providing historical records before the merge, and the EIP 5-4803, which limits transaction gas, may be related to Pectra and are pending further discussion (the former is purely a network change, while the latter is a retrospective EIP that will not change existing client behavior).Additionally, two weeks ago, the Mekong testnet based on the Pectra Devnet 4 specification encountered significant issues, leading all client teams to release fixes. Mekong is now stable, and developers are focused on launching Devnet 5. Developers will discuss the timelines for Devnet 5 and 6 in the Pectra testing conference call next Monday.

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 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 news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 197th Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) conference, discussing and coordinating changes to the Ethereum Execution Layer (EL). Developers agreed to advance the Pectra upgrade within a limited scope, currently only including 8 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) on Devnet 3. They also agreed that a set of 4 EIPs related to the Ethereum blob fee market might be included in Pectra during the upgrade planning process, with Vitalik expressing support for increasing blob capacity in Pectra, while other developers voiced opposition, and no conclusion has been reached yet.Other blob-related EIPs include EIP 7762 (increase MIN_BASE_FEE_PER_BLOB_GAS), EIP 7623 (increase calldata costs), and EIP 7742 (separate blob counting between CL and EL).Beiko confirmed that the next upgrade after Pectra will indeed be named Fusaka, which will include PeerDAS and EOF. Fusaka may also incorporate additional EIPs, provided that further progress can be made on the implementation of these two EIPs. Finally, Beiko stated that a new EIP for EL upgrades will be opened after Osaka, named "Amsterdam," and the EIP originally considered for inclusion in Osaka, namely Verkle, will be carried over to the new Amsterdam EIP.