Good evening,
Tonight, I’m sharing my takeaways from ETHConf, the first large-scale Ethereum conference hosted by the ETHGlobal team.
Let’s get into it.
Yours truly,
Christine D. Kim
🗒️ Call Minutes
First, a quick summary of the latest Ethereum developer call, All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) #180.
Glamsterdam devnet updates
Developers are continuing to test the Glamsterdam upgrade on Glamsterdam-Devnet-5. A full list of code changes and features being tested on the devnet is listed here.
Ethereum Foundation (EF) Developer Operations Engineer Barnabas Busa said client teams are investigating and fixing issues surfaced on the devnet, including a fork-choice bug in Grandine and a peering bug in Prysm.
Glamsterdam API changes
Offchain Labs Prysm client developer James He has opened a PR, Beacon API/PR #608, to update various endpoints in the Beacon API in accordance with Glamsterdam code changes. These endpoints are related to block proposer preferences, such as the fee-recipient and gas-limit endpoints.
Founder of MigaLabs “Leobago” proposed changes to the Beacon API that would make validator deposit and activation states easier for node operators to track. The proposal, Beacon API/PR #618, clarifies pre-activation validator statuses and adds a new
deposit_inqueuestate for validator deposits that are in the deposit queue but have not yet become validator objects. Comments on the PR are welcome.Busa proposed Beacon API/PR #606, which would expose more peer-scoring and disconnect-reason data from clients through the Beacon API. The goal is to make it easier for developers to debug client networking issues during devnet testing. Developers agreed to merge the change now while continuing to refine the exact fields added to the API.
The Staked Builder API for Glamsterdam has been finalized and merged.
Busa encouraged client teams to continue working on their implementations for execution-apis/PR #793, a change to the Execution API authored by Geth client developer Marius van der Wijden for supporting SSZ data serialization formats.
Glamsterdam specifications changes
Developers discussed the next steps for deprecating Multiplexer (mplex) in favor of QUIC. These are third-party protocols that the Ethereum consensus layer (CL) relies on for fast and reliable data transfers between nodes. Pending support from the Teku and Nimbus clients, developers agreed to aim for mplex deprecation by the time developers are ready to upgrade public testnets with the Glamsterdam upgrade.
Developers discussed a new EIP proposal, Builder Execution Requests, which would give third-party block builders their own dedicated execution-layer request contracts for deposits and exits. This could remove edge cases associated with Glamsterdam, but it may also add timeline risk for the upgrade. Developers agreed to continue discussing the proposal on next Monday’s All Core Developers Testing ACDT) call.
Hegota EIP Proposals
EF researcher Raul Kripalani presented EIP-8243: Batching Attestations at Source for consideration as part of the Hegota upgrade.
The goal of the proposal is to achieve validator consolidation-like effects so that the protocol can eventually support faster block times.
Announcements
The next ACDC call, scheduled for two weeks from now, is expected to return to a 14:00 UTC / 10:00 a.m. ET timeslot until further notice.
There is a community discussion happening on Ethereum Magicians about the emoji mascot for the Glamsterdam upgrade.
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🔎 Insights
ETHConf was a three-day Ethereum conference at the Javits Center in New York.
