Ethereum Developers Discuss Progress on Code Changes and Upcoming Test Network

According to Odaily, Christine Kim, Deputy Director of Research at Galaxy, has shared key points from the latest phone meeting of Ethereum core developers (ACDE). The developers discussed their progress in implementing various code changes, including Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIP) 7251 and 7702, as well as Ethereum Virtual Object Format (EOF) and PeerDAS. In the meeting, the developers first discussed Pectra Devnet 1. Their goal is to release the next dedicated test network for Pectra within the coming week. Major specification changes between the previous test network, Devnet 0, and the upcoming one include the addition of validator merges triggered by EL and the replacement of EIP 3074 with EIP 7702. During the client team's update, a developer asked if the implementation of EOF would be excluded from Devnet 1. Beiko confirmed that EOF would not be tested on Devnet 1 and that the implementation of EOF should be rebuilt based on the latest Pectra specifications, not the final Deneb specifications. Barnabas Busa, a developer operations engineer at the Ethereum Foundation (EF), emphasized that due to changes and debugging in the Pectra specifications, this strategy would make debugging EOF more difficult. Regarding the EIP 7702 update, although developers are implementing EIP 7702 on Devnet 1, the code change could still be significantly revised to support new features, especially the ability for users to revoke transaction authorization enabled by EIP 7702. The project team believes that finalizing the design of EIP 7702 is an important issue and suggests that the developer community organize further discussions to reach a consensus. Regarding the EOF update, Busa's team will test the EOF implementation after the Pectra code changes. The EL client team is tracking the EOF preparation status on GitHub. Besu and Reth have implemented all EOF EIPs, while other teams are still in the building phase. The Erigon team suggested adding EOF transaction test cases. The EF test team is releasing more EOF tests and will share more content. The EOF meeting has been changed to once every two weeks, as the specifications have been determined and the focus has shifted to testing and client implementation. In addition, the PeerDAS development network is expected to go live in the next one to two weeks, based on the Dencun specifications rather than Pectra. Tim Beiko also shared a proposal template for an EIP discussion thread, while EF developer operations engineer Parithosh Jayanthi highlighted a new GitHub page called 'eth-clients', which provides configurations for the Ethereum mainnet and testnet. Finally, Beiko reminded all teams that the next ACDE phone meeting will be held on the US holiday of July 4th.