136th Ethereum ACDC Meeting: Pectra Devnet 1 is almost ready

Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy, published a post summarizing the main content of the 136th ACDC call, involving new research on client diversity data collection and multi-client block verification. Nethermind researcher Jorge Arce-Garro shared his team's latest results, which aims to improve the way node operators report client diversity data. Funded by EF, the research provides three different methods to facilitate validator node operators to communicate client types, and evaluates each method based on complexity, security, and ability to protect the anonymity of node operators. Arce-Garro asked for feedback on his team's research, which has been published on Ethresearch. The developer also shared the latest progress of the Pectra upgrade, mentioning that Pectra Devnet 1 is about to be ready, and the EF Development Operations (DevOps) team is waiting for the execution layer (EL) client to be ready. Teku developer Mikhail Kalinin shared an update to the EIP 6110 specification; PeerDAS Devnet 1 is online, supporting three different CL client deployments. Work on SSZ code changes was also discussed, with EIP 7688 and EIP 6493 being worked on, although developers have not yet decided whether these two additional EIPs will be included in Pectra.