Ethereum’s Major Developers Meeting Has Ended – Critical Date Announced

Ethereum core developers discussed a number of important technical topics at the 214th Executive Level Developer Meeting (ACDE). According to Christine Kim’s meeting summary, developers focused specifically on the upcoming Fusaka upgrade, new EIPs, and testing plans.

The prominent decision of the meeting was that Fusaka Devnet 2 will be launched on June 23. At least three separate Consensus Layer (CL) and Execution Layer (EL) client groups need to be ready for Devnet 2. Some tests have been postponed to the next Devnet 3 phase and the overall test schedule has been extended.

Among the Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) discussed and planned were:

• EIP-7594 – PeerDAS: Distributed data sampling
• EIP-7823 – Upper limit for MODEXP operation
• EIP-7825 – Transaction fee (gas fee) cap
• EIP-7883 – ModExp gas cost increase
• EIP-7892 – Blob parameter changes only with hardfork
• EIP-7917 – Deterministic block producer visibility
• EIP-7918 – Tying blob base fees to transaction cost
• EIP-7935 – Setting default gas limit as XX0M
• EIP-7951 – Add secp256r1 curve precompiled
• EIP-7907 – Smart contract code size limitation (reduced from 256 KB to 48 KB)
• EIP-7934 – RLP block size limitations
• EIP-7939 – New opcodes that calculate zeros

Some technical details are still in the testing phase. For example, pricing tests are ongoing for EIP-7951. The meeting also discussed new proposals planned to be included in the future “Glamsterdam” upgrade. These included EIP-7745 (trust log index) and EIP-7919 (a core proposal called Pureth).

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