Odaily Planet Daily News Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko summarized the latest Ethereum Core Developer Executive Conference (ACDE), including Devnet 8 progress, ElP-4788, Holesky testnet, EIP editorial update, EIP-7212. The specific content is as follows:
Recently launched Devnet 8, bugs were found in some clients, but most have been fixed and other fixes are in progress, Devnet 8 has established basic infrastructure as support. Lighthouse had issues with nplex support that was previously removed and will be adding it back.
Regarding ElP-4788, the developers agreed to use regular smart contracts instead of precompiled to store historical beacon roots. This means that bugs in the contract cannot cause consensus to fail. The last detail that needs to be agreed upon is whether to deploy this contract via a regular transaction, or whether the deployment should be included in the upgrade logic itself.
The Holesky testnet update is scheduled to launch on September 15th. There is already a public process for requesting genesis allocations, providing a total supply of 1.6 billion HETH.
The developer gives an update on the editorial aspects of the EIP. A repo split is in progress and the ERC will be moved into a separate repo. Efforts are underway to standardize its governance process to manage multiple repos in the future.
The developers are numbering the EL fork specification in the Github repository.
For the newly proposed EIP-7212, precompiled for secp256r1 curve support, the same curve as Ethereum uses on EL, but with different input parameters. This may be the ElP adopted by L2 before L1, and this ElP still needs to be discussed.