Tim Beiko’s recap of all core devs – execution (ACDE):
ACDE Recap - this was a big one, so brace yourselves! Dencun
Teams are satisfied with how Goerli went: issues have already been triaged, fixed, and new releases shipped. We are therefore keeping our Sepolia/Holesky schedule. Client teams should have a release out with activation set for both testnets by early next week. See EIP-7569 for epochs/timestamps. CL spec was just released, too (see announcements)
We tentatively agreed to move forward with this JSON RPC PR (https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/486) once (1) we've merged the 4844 naming changes (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/8095) and updated the PR to reflect those, and (2) ideally have @RyanSchneider (or another future user!) confirm that the JSON RPC PR looks good
We're good to deploy the 4788 contract to mainnet. First one to do this and post a txn hash here gets their gas refunded
Prague/Electra
Lots of conversation on the call, won't summarize everything here. If you care about what's going in the fork, make sure you watch the recording!
EL teams agreed that we should aim to do a fork in 2024, which likely means excluding Verkle and having it in the next fork. That said, there is likely bandwidth for one "harder thing" in that fork.
All EL teams agreed that 2537, 6110 and 7002 should be prioritized in the next fork. I've drafted a Meta EIP to reflect this, and given 2/3rd of these EIPs also involve the CL and we didn't get a formal +1 from them, I've put all 3 in the "CFI" bucket for now: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/8121
On the next ACDE, we'll discuss the 3 potential "big things": Verkle, EOF and 4444. If you have specific questions/points you'd like to cover about those, please raise them on either the call agenda (https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/943), here, or with the champions for those initiatives.
Hopefully, after that we have a feel for where Verkle should go, and what space is left in Prague!
Tim Beiko’s tweet thread notes of ACDE: