172nd Ethereum ACDE Conference: Devnet #10 expected to launch next week, will contain 330,000 active validators

Odaily Planet Daily News Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, issued a document summarizing the 172nd Ethereum Core Developer Execution (ACDE) conference call, which covered Cancun/Deneb (Dencun) testing and EVM Object Format (EOF) development. Barnabas Busa, a DevOps engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, shared some updates about Devnet #9, which developers launched on September 29: - Devnet #9 currently has a participation rate of 93%; - 7% of unrunning validators are mainly Geth (EL)/Teku (CL) validator nodes; - There are also issues with the Erigon (EL)/Prysm (CL) client combination and the EthereumJS (EL) client; - The Flashbots team is testing the MEV-Boost relay and builder on Devnet #9. Busa encourages other relay and builder operators to contact him so that more MEV infrastructure can be tested on Devnet #9. - Blob transactions have not been tested with the MEV-Boost builder. The blob is being discarded by the builder, and the developers are unsure whether this is because the blob is actually invalid, does not meet the minimum base charge requirements, or was discarded for some other reason. Busa and the Ethereum Foundation’s Parithosh Jayanthi also shared the latest news about the upcoming Devnet #10: - Devnet #10 will not be ready this week, but is expected to be available next week; - For Devnet #10, developers wish to test trusted settings files from the EIP-4844 KZG ceremony. - Devnet #10 will offer a large validator set with 330,000 active validators. There will be a large number of validator deposits and exits at the genesis of Devnet #10, changing the validator input turnover limit from 5 to 4 within a day or two of the network launch. Busa emphasized that developers are still working to resolve "big issues" in the Dencun testing process. Until these questions are answered, the developers will not proceed with the launch of Devnet #10, which may be the last Devnet before Dencun activates the upgrade on public Ethereum testnets such as Goerli. Core developer Tim Beiko asked developers if they would be willing to upgrade the Goerli testnet after the release of Devnet #10. Busa recommends waiting for the results of Devnet #10 before deciding on next steps for upgrade testing. In addition, Danno Ferrin, one of the advocates of EOF, emphasized that he hopes EOF will become a major code change included in the upgrade after Cancun/Deneb (Prague/Electra). The main purpose of EOF is to create a new container format for EVM code. He also said that as more and more smart contract developers adopt EOF, the current EVM may be slowly abandoned. Regarding the testing progress of EOF, Ferrin explained that the specification of EOF has not yet been finalized, which is why no clients have implemented the upgrade yet. However, he expects testing of EOF to be very "self-contained" and relatively simple, as the scope of EOF only changes the execution of the EVM.