Good evening,
This is the final week for Ethereum stakeholders to submit proposals for headliner features in the Hegota upgrade.
As I mentioned to my premium subscribers last week in the Telegram chat, developers are still planning Glamsterdam, which will precede Hegota.
The last time developers planned two forks in advance, recall Pectra and Fusaka, they vowed not to do it again to avoid last-minute changes to both fork scopes.
While this time, developers are on a stricter timeline to ship Glamsterdam and Hegota in the same calendar year, I would encourage headliner champions to be wary of how ongoing changes to Glamsterdam’s scope may impact the priorities and timeline for Hegota, and could lead to similarly drastic changes to the fork’s scope, as we saw in the aftermath of the great Pectra split.
That’s a freebie takeaway. The actual takeaway from today’s newsletter will be about a topic unrelated to protocol development.
Today, I’m talking about an issue close to my heart, the issue of the creator economy.
Inspired by yesterday’s X post from Vitalik Buterin on creator coins, I’m sharing my views below on how I foresee the role of crypto playing out in the new creator economy.
Yours truly,
Christine D. Kim
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Fusaka
Consensus layer (CL) client teams are working on their implementation of partial cell proofs, which will allow higher blob counts on Ethereum mainnet.
Developers are testing higher blob counts on a dedicated testnet, blob-devnet-0.
Ethereum Foundation (EF) Developer Operations Engineer Barnabas Busa noted that the Prysm and Lighthouse clients are not responding to the
MIN_EPOCHS_FOR_DATA_COLUMN_SIDECARS_REQUESTSfield, which is causing nodes on blob-devnet-0 to struggle under higher blob counts.Busa requested that client teams continue working on their partial cell proof implementations and, for the Prysm and Lighthouse teams specifically, to look into the field issue.
Benchmarking updates
Busa noted that on next week’s All Core Developers Testing (ACDT) call, one of his team members will share a demo of a new benchmarking tool for execution layer (EL) clients.
Glamsterdam
Bals-devnet-2 is still on schedule for a launch this Wednesday, February 4.
EF Developer Operations Engineer Stefan Starflinger said that he has been testing client implementations for the launch and shared a few issues.
Starflinger noted that the Lighthouse and Lodestar CL clients are ready for testing on bals-devnet-2.
Busa asked all client teams to implement the following two pull requests (PR) by Wednesday’s devnet launch:
Execution API PR #726: Add EIP-7928 Block-level Access Lists JSON RPC methods
Execution API PR #727: Define EIP-7928 API methods
For epbs-devnet-0, tentatively scheduled for launch in late February, developers agreed to update the devnet scope to include all changes in the latest consensus specifications release, v1.7.0-alpha.2.
Hegota proposal deadline
Busa reminded participants on the call that the deadline to propose headliner features for the Hegota fork is this Wednesday, February 4.
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin continues on his social media tear.
Yesterday, he published a post laying out his vision for creator coins—cryptocurrencies designed to reward people for producing content.
This particular post landed close to home for me.
I’m a content creator. I think a lot about how to monetize what I do in a way that’s sustainable, but also doesn’t quietly turn my work into engagement bait.
