Ethereum Developers Discuss Pectra Upgrade and EIP 7732 in Latest Core Call

On
August
15,
2024,
Ethereum
protocol
developers
convened
virtually
for
All
Core
Developers
Execution
(ACDE)
Call
#194,
chaired
by
Ethereum
Foundation
(EF)
Researcher
Alex
Stokes.
The
bi-weekly
ACDE
meetings
focus
on
coordinating
changes
to
the
execution
layer
(EL)
of
Ethereum.

Pectra
Upgrade
and
Devnets

The
call
began
with
updates
on
the
testing
progress
for
the
Pectra
upgrade.
The
readiness
of
EOF
code
changes
for
inclusion
in
a
Pectra
devnet
and
updated
analysis
on
the
gas
costs
for
EIP
2537
operations
were
key
discussion
points.
EF
Developer
Operations
Engineer
Parithosh
Jayanthi
noted
issues
with
Teku/Erigon
nodes
and
the
Prysm
client
on
Pectra
Devnet
2.
Developers
aim
to
launch
Pectra
Devnet
3
with
updated
specifications
for
EIP
7702
in
two
weeks,
followed
by
the
addition
of
EOF
in
Pectra
Devnet
4.

Geth
developer
Marius
van
der
Wijden
presented
updated
analysis
on
the
gas
costs
for
EIP
2537,
which
creates
a
new
precompile
for
BLS12-381
curve
operations.
This
enables
smart
contract
developers
to
perform
cost-effective
operations
such
as
signature
aggregation
over
the
BLS12-381
curve.
Van
der
Wijden
encouraged
other
developers
to
run
their
own
benchmarks
on
EIP
2537
gas
usage
to
verify
results.

EIP
7732

Prysm
developer
“Potuz”
shared
updates
on
EIP
7732,
a
formal
proposal
to
enshrine
proposer
builder
separation
on
Ethereum.
Since
the
Merge,
validators
have
relied
on
relays
to
receive
blocks
containing
MEV
rewards.
EIP
7732
aims
to
eliminate
the
need
for
relays,
allowing
validators
to
earn
MEV
more
trustlessly.
Potuz
emphasized
that
the
current
design
requires
no
changes
to
the
execution
layer
(EL)
or
Engine
API
and
is
compatible
with
inclusion
lists,
which
enable
validators
to
force
transaction
inclusion
in
a
block.

Reducing
Pre-Merge
Tech
Debt

Developers
discussed
proposals
to
remove
outdated
parts
of
the
Ethereum
codebase
post-Merge.
Erigon
developer
Giulio
Rebuffo
proposed
removing
the
“totalDifficulty”
field
from
the
Execution
API
to
reduce
technical
debt.
Geth
developer
Marius
van
der
Wijden
proposed
removing
pre-Merge
fields
and
messages
from
the
Ethereum
Wire
Protocol
to
improve
node
performance
and
reduce
bandwidth
during
sync.
Both
proposals
received
positive
feedback
and
will
be
reviewed
in
more
detail
asynchronously.

PeerDAS

Nimbus
developer
“Dustin”
proposed
hastening
the
rebase
of
PeerDAS
on
top
of
Pectra
EIPs
instead
of
continuing
development
on
Deneb.
He
suggested
rebasing
PeerDAS
on
stable
Pectra
EIPs
and
excluding
unstable
ones
like
EIP
7702
and
EOF.
There
was
general
support
for
this
direction.

Stokes
reminded
participants
of
a
recurring
Pectra
testing
call
starting
next
Monday
at
2
PM
(UTC)
to
coordinate
further
on
devnet
specifications
and
timing.

EIP
4444

There
were
no
major
updates
on
EIP
4444,
which
deals
with
history
expiry.
Representatives
from
Nethermind
and
Nimbus
teams
are
building
out
their
integrations
with
the
Portal
Network,
an
alternative
protocol
for
accessing
expired
history
data.

For
more
detailed
information,
please
refer
to
the
original
article
on

galaxy.com.

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