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Roman Storm jury deliberating, Justin Drake’s lean Ethereum, mainnet turns ten

All core devs (main protocol calls)

All core devs - execution (ACDE) #217

  • Fusaka upgrade:
    • Ideally upgrade mainnet before Devconnect (November 17-22). Confirm upgrade schedule & testnet order at ACDC
    • EIP7825 16.8M transaction gas limit cap: concerns on breaking some apps, decide if increase needed at ACDT
    • PeerDAS balance per additional custody group: home & fractional staking concerns, decide if increase needed in Fusaka at ACDC
  • Glamsterdam upgrade:
    • Consensus layer headliner short list (from last ACDC): EIP7732 ePBS, EIP7782 6-second slots, EIP7805 FOCIL
    • EIP7928 Block-level Access Lists set to Considered for Inclusion (CFI), likely execution layer headliner if ACDC choose EIP7732 ePBS as consensus layer headliner

All core devs - testing (ACDT) #46

Layer 1

Staking

  • EthStaker staking survey results: 23% genesis stakers, 60% run 1-5 validators with own capital, 27% run validators rather than liquid staking to benefit the network
  • Client diversity:
    • Consensus layer: Lighthouse 42.7%
    • Execution layer: Geth ~41%, Nethermind ~38% (estimated from 74% self reported)
  • Staking marketshare: Lido 24.8%
  • Client releases:
    • Consensus layer
      • Grandine 1.1.2: 45M default gas limit & optimizations
      • Nimbus v25.7.1: fixes potential syncing-related crash
      • Teku 25.7.1: 45M default gas limit
    • Execution layer
      • Erigon v3.0.15: bug fixes
      • Nethermind 1.32.4: fix peer discovery

Layer 2

  • Linea tokenomics: plan to burn ETH (20% of net income gas fees)

Research

  • Julian Ma: in-protocol prover market proposal, builders deposit a prize whilst building a block, anyone who submits a proof can claim a share of the prize in the next slot

Dev Tools Guild
The Dev Tools Guild unites critical Ethereum developer tooling to collectively fund projects and their maintainers (think Protocol Guild but for dev tooling), and boost coordination between protocol and dev tools developers.

Member projects:

  • Smart contract languages: Solidity & Vyper
  • Client libraries: alloy, ethers.js, Nethereum, viem, web3.py & Web3j
  • Frameworks and developer environments: Ape, Foundry & Scaffold-ETH
  • Standardization tooling: Sourcify

Follow @devtoolsguild, Visit devtoolsguild.xyz, Fund at donate.devtoolsguild.eth

Ecosystem

  • Justin Drake’s lean Ethereum vision:
    • Defense (fort mode): 100% uptime, survive anything (e.g. nation states & quantum computers)
    • Offense (beast mode): gigagas L1, teragas L2, realtime zkVMs, DAS, beacon chain 2.0, blobs 2.0, EVM 2.0 & hash-based cryptography
  • Ethereum mainnet turns ten:
  • ETH metrics:
    • Gas (gwei): 1.1 average, 0.2 - 10.2 (16.3 for zero net issuance)
    • ETH supply change: 17k net issuance
    • ETHUSD: $3,619 – $3,934 (all time high $4,878, November 10, 2021)
    • ETH ETFs: 4.57% of ETH supply
    • ETHBTC: 0.032 (0.165 for the Flippening)

Developers

  • Foundry:
    • v1.3.0: forge lint (built-in linter), invariant test time-based campaigns & coverage-guided fuzzing, table tests and improved EIP712 support
    • Forge-std v1.10.0: added getRawBlockHeader, stopRecord, setSeed, EIP7702: attach/sign delegation and EIP712: hash struct/type/typed data
  • OpenZeppelin Contracts MCP: generate contracts with AI using Contracts Wizard templates
  • Ethereum Community Foundation BlobKit (TypeScript): use blobs as ephemeral, verifiable data layer
  • Halmos (symbolic testing): invariant testing guide
  • Content coin metadata: find/load coins created via Zora & Uniswap v4 pool
  • Linda Xie: vibe code a Farcaster mini app
  • TrueBlocks Create Local App: Go-based scaffolding for TrueBlocks/Wails desktop apps
  • Safe Research: encryption in web3
  • ERCs (application layer standards):
    • ERC7994: Purpose-bound ERC20 with multi-condition unlocking
    • ERC7995: Encrypted data
    • ERC7996: Contract Feature Detection
  • Reminder: Holešky testnet being deprecated, migrate to Hoodi

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