Ted Hisokawa January 10, 2025 14:49
Ethereum all-core developer consensus call #148 focused on Pectra test updates, validator hardware requirements, and Gloas upgrade names.
On January 9, 2025, Ethereum developers held the first All-Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) call of the year, chaired by Ethereum Foundation Researcher Alex Stokes. According to galaxy.com, the biweekly series of meetings will serve as a platform for developers to discuss and coordinate changes to Ethereum’s consensus layer, known as Beacon Chain.
Pectra Devnet 5 and validator requirements
During the call, the developers shared updates on Pectra’s testing and implementation progress. The main focus was on defining the hardware requirements for validator node operators, an initiative led by a developer known as “Kev.” The group agreed to name the seventh consensus layer fork after the star “Gloas.”
Parithosh Jayanthi, EF Developer Operations Engineer, highlighted open issues in the consensus layer specification that need to be resolved before launching Pectra Devnet 5. Hive tests for both Execution Layer (EL) and Consensus Layer (CL) clients have been updated and most clients are running. sufficient for these tests. Stokes was scheduled to follow up with Geth developer “Lightclient” by mentioning another issue related to EIP 2935 that affects EL clients.
Timeline and upgrades
The timing of Pectra Devnet 5 was discussed, and Stokes recommended consulting with the EL client team before finalizing the release date. EF Protocol Support Lead Tim Beiko will upgrade Ethereum’s public testnets, Sepolia and Holesky, in February and launch Devnet 5 the following week, with the aim of having it active on mainnet by March. proposed.
The call also addressed whether the new Ephemery Testnet should be upgraded in parallel with Sepolia and Holsky. The consensus was to upgrade Sepolia first, then Holesky, and potentially bundle client releases to facilitate mainnet activation.
additional development
Updates to PeerDAS, a blob scalability improvement planned for the Fusaka upgrade, were not shared on this call. However, a developer named “Pop” proposed three new fields in the Ethereum Node Record (ENR) specification that would facilitate node connectivity with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. These changes are backward compatible and can be integrated independently of Pectra.
Finally, the developers considered a name for the seventh upgrade of the consensus layer. ‘Gloas’ has emerged as the preferred option, allowing for the coining of ‘Glamsterdam’ which combines the EL and CL upgrades, and the EL fork already has the name Amsterdam.
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