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Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade (meta {1714968828207745})

Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Recap from Alex Stokes. Notes from Christine Kim:

Confirmation rule research: algorithm determines if block always in canonical chain

Pectra-devnet-0: plan to launch in ~10 days, client teams making good progress, attestation refactoring for EIP7549 taking extra time

EIP7684 return deposits for distinct credentials: proposal to mitigate deposit front-running for staking pools

PeerDAS: client teams making progress, synchrony assumption on sampling discussion

consensus-specs/releases v1.5.0-alpha.1: CL spec target of pectra-devnet-0, bug fixes for test cases & new fork tests

EIP2537 BLS12 precompile benchmarks

Future of EOA/AA breakout call # 2 scheduled for May 7

Yoav Weiss: Account Abstraction roadmap, towards native AA starting with L2

Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH

🚨 Lido at 28.68% still too close to 33.3% threshold

Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):

ution layer: Geth ~63% majority

Consensus layer: Prysm 38%

Any client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finality

Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe

Layer 1

Erigon switching development to v3

Slashing Proofoor: prove a validator hasn’t been slashed using EIP4788 beacon block root in EVM

Terence: builder reveal timing game post ePBS

Client Releases

Consensus layer:

Nimbus v24.4.0: stability & performance improvements

ution layer:

Erigon
Otterscan v2.5.0 alpha: improved Optimism support

For Stakers

Teku adds client info to graffiti: appends client types & versions to improve client diversity data, opt-out

Layer 2

Lattice Redstone live, uses Plasma mode offchain data availability

EIPs/Standards

EIPs:

EIP7701: Native account abstraction with EOF

ERCs (application layer):

ERC7700: Cross-chain storage router protocol

Stuff for developers

EIP5792 site (wallet call API): API reference, capabilities & eco support

Wagmi v2.8.0: adds experimental EIP5792 actions & hooks

Reth ution Extensions (ExEx): post-ution hooks for building offchain infrastructure

Security

Pike ~$2M in two exploits, first via weak security handling of cross-chain transfer protocol transfers (identified by auditor) and second via faulty upgrade to pause the protocol

DeFi risk modeling: security implications of economic research

Eco

Ethereum reached 1 million validators

Job Listings

stakefish: DevOps Engineer & Full-stack Engineer

Devcon: Production Magician & Volunteer Coordinator

ChainSafe: Head of Protocol Engineering and Developer Relations - Sygma

Onchain stats

Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 3.4 to 91.4 gwei, with 8.4 gwei average

Zero net issuance currently at 23.2 gwei

11k ETH net issuance this week

ETHUSD: $2,859 - $3,342, currently $3,102

ETHBTC: currently 0.049 (Flippening at ~0.16)

Notable at app layer

Fantasy.top (CryptoTwitter fantasy sports game) live on Blast.

If you need a signup code

Friendtech v2: adds clubs & $friend airdrop

Eigen token, non-transferable & airdrop geoblocked after allowing deposits from those countries

Aave proposed roadmap: v4, cross-chain liquidity layer, real world asset products built around GHO stablecoin and Aave network

Paragraph acquires Mirror

DefiLama airdrops: check any address, no signing or signup required

Gitcoin Grants donation history for an address

A look at yields in DeFi this week

Regulation/business/tokens

Former Binance CEO CZ sentenced to four months prison

ENS challenge Unstoppable Domains patent

General

Vitalik: Binius, efficient proofs over binary fields

Dutch arrest ZKasino rugpuller

Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold)
May 7 – Gitcoin Grants 20 ends
May 10-11 – ETH Bratislava conference & hackathon
May 21-23 – DappCon (Berlin)
May 24-26 – ETHBerlin
May 31-Jun 2 – where to buy Ethereum Name Service hackathon & conference
May 31-Jun 2 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon
May 31-Jun 5 – ETH Belgrade conference & hackathon
Jun 14 – EF EIP4844 data challenge deadline
Jun 21-23 – ETHKyiv hackathon & conference
Jul 8-11 – EthCC (Brussels)
Jul 11-14 – Pragma & ETHGlobal Brussels
Jul 26-30 – EDCON Tokyo conference
Aug 23-Sep 13 – ETHGlobal ETHOnline (virtual)
Aug 23-26 – ETHTokyo hackathon & conference
Aug 29-31 – ETHAccra hackathon
Sep 5-8 – ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon
Sep 9-15 – ETHSafari (Kenya)
Sep 12-14 – how to buy Enjin Coin (Napoli)
Sep 20-22 – ETHGlobal Singapore
Sep 26-27 – ETHMilan conference
Oct 4-6 – ETHRome
Oct 17-19 – ETHSofia hackathon & conference
Oct 18-20 – how to buy Aleph Zero & ETHGlobal San Francisco
Nov 12-15 – Devcon 7 - Southeast Asia (Bangkok)
Nov 15-17 – ETHGlobal Bangkok hackathon