147th Ethereum ACDC meeting: Developers are still finalizing specifications for Pectra network Devnet 5 release

Christine Kim, vice president of research at Galaxy, summarizes the highlights of the 147th Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Conference (ACDC) call: - Developers reconfirmed that EIP 7762 (increasing the minimum blob base fee) will not be included in the Pectra upgrade; - Developers are still finalizing the spec for the release of Devnet 5, the new Pectra development network. Alex Stokes, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, confirmed that a minor renaming of the "PendingPartialWithdrawal.index" field in the consensus spec was made so that the naming convention is consistent with other fields related to validator withdrawals. Stokes then brought up a proposal from Erigon developer Giulio Rebuffo to increase the "GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE" value in the consensus spec from 10 MiB to 15 MiB. This will allow validators to safely increase the block gas limit on EL from 30m gas to 60m gas; -Mekong is a public Pectra development network based on the Pectra Devnet 4 specification and is currently running stably with no new updates reported on the health of the network. The testnet recently increased the block gas limit from 30m gas to 36m gas and has not reported any network outages since then; -Developers agreed to remove EIP 7742 (split blob counts between CL and EL) from Pectra, and instead implement the doubling of blob counts in Pectra by changing the genesis config in the client; -The design of EIP 7251 has been updated with some updates, increasing the maximum valid balance; -The repricing model BLS precompile for EIP 2537 is nearing completion.