Title: All_Core_Devs___Execution__ACDE___205__February_13
Category: Protocol_Calls___happenings

Author: abcoathup
Date: 2025-02-11T21:28:56.169Z

Agenda
Execution Layer Meeting 205 · Issue #1271 · ethereum/pm · GitHub moderated by @timbeiko
Agenda summary by @Nixo
Summary




All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #205, February 13, 2025 Protocol Calls & happenings


Call Summary
Action Items & Next Steps
Pectra 

Client Teams to make Pectra releases by Feb 14
Pectra testnet announcement out on Feb 14
Pectra system contracts should be deployed to testnets + mainnet by Monday’s testing call
All Pectra EIPs should be moved to Last Call (Tracking PR)

Fusaka Fork scoping timeline: 
* March 13: Fusaka Proposed for Inclusion deadline 
* To do so, open a PR against EIP-7607 
* March 27: Deadline for core devs & researchers to review PFI’d EIPs and share their pref…
  

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Writeups

Ethereum All Core Developers Execution Call #205 Writeup | Galaxy by @Christine_dkim
Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDE) #205 by @yashkamalchaturvedi

Additional info

Testnets:

Pectra-devnet-6
Ephemery testnet upgraded to Pectra
Pectra upgrade client releases for Holešky & Sepolia testnets


Last call for Pectra Retrospective

Author: timbeiko
Date: 2025-02-13T17:58:15.924Z

Call Summary
Action Items & Next Steps
Pectra

Client Teams to make Pectra releases by Feb 14
Pectra testnet announcement out on Feb 14
Pectra system contracts should be deployed to testnets + mainnet by Monday’s testing call
All Pectra EIPs should be moved to Last Call (Tracking PR)

Fusaka Fork scoping timeline:
* March 13: Fusaka Proposed for Inclusion deadline
* To do so, open a PR against EIP-7607
* March 27: Deadline for core devs & researchers to review PFI’d EIPs and share their preferences async
* Any format is OK, but please link write ups in the EIP-7607 EthMagicians thread
* April 10: Tentative deadline to finalize Fusaka’s scope
Last Call for Reviews

Testing requirements for EIPs
EOF testnet plans
Max blobs flag
Hardware requirement EIP
Pectra Retrospective Thread

Call Summary
Pectra

Devnet-6 is running smoothly, with the MEV workflow being tested end to end.
Teams expect to have all releases by tomorrow, after which an EF blog post will announce the testnet forks.
The system contracts for EIPs 2935, 7002 and 7251 have not been deployed yet. Let’s try and do this by Monday’s testing call.
Ephemery now supports Pectra!

Fusaka
EIP-7723

Mario opened a PR for testing requirements at different stages of EIPs
After some discussion on the call, we agreed to have the following requirements for Pectra:

CFI’d EIPs should have a PR against EELS and EEST test cases
SFI’d EIPs must have a PR against EELS and EEST test cases


There were concerns about creating a bottleneck on the testing + spec teams, as well as the overhead for client developers to propose changes. Requiring PRs instead of merged changes felt like a sufficient mitigation for the first issue. The value of a shared spec for changes also felt more valuable than trying to maximally reduce friction for client teams who want to propose an EIP.

Pectra Retrospective

Tim reviewed what was shared in the Pectra retrospective and distilled three key desires:

Improving the speed at which we ship network upgrades
Having clear technical standards for EIPs when including them
Considering larger process changes to AllCoreDevs


To move things forward, Tim proposed freezing the Fusaka scope now so that we can consider adjusting technical requirements and the overall process without delaying Fusaka.
There was some pushback to this:

There are other EIPs some client teams would like considered
There were concerns that the scope for Fusaka, decided a long time ago, was no longer the right one. Several Geth engineers were opposed to including EOF in Fusaka.
There were other concerns that speeding up the process would not result in us choosing to work on the most impactful features
And, lastly, there was a shared agreement that we should ship PeerDAS ASAP and not let other EIPs slow it down.


After a lot of back and forth, we agreed to still try and finalize the scope for Fusaka around the time Pectra goes live on mainnet. Specifically:

EIPs should be Proposed for Inclusion by March 13
Client teams should share their CFI preferences by March 27

Note: Geth members said they would prefer to share their preferences as individuals rather than a team. This is fine, but the deadline should be the same.


The scope for Fusaka should freeze by April 10



EOF

Danno provided an update on EOF status and plans
Fusaka-1 devnet deployed yesterday with old EOF Pectra spec
Fusaka-1 aims to clean up spec changes by April (Pectra mainnet activation)
Beyond this, there are several optional feature additions that could be considered
- Restore TX create into the spec
- Remove 7698 contract creation transaction
- Add metadata section to EOF container
- Add light-level introspection opcodes

Again, there was some pushback on EOF’s scope and inclusion in Fusaka by some Geth team members


Conversations about the specifics of the TXCREATE mechanism (context) will continue async.

Node Requirements
Max Blob Flag

Feedback from roll-ups: Mildly inconvenient but acceptable if it allows for increased block throughput
All EL clients except Erigon have agreed to the flag
There were some concerns about the profitability of the flag. They were addressed by clarifying that this flag only applies to stakers building local blocks, which are less profitable than mev-boost ones by a larger margin than the difference this flag makes.

Requirement EIP

We ran out of time to discuss this, will continue the conversation on ACDC

Author: yashkamalchaturvedi
Date: 2025-02-14T03:29:12.756Z

Call Notes: Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDE) #205