ACDC #151: Full Steam Ahead for Pectra on Holesky!

On Ep.81 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her main takeaways from ACDC #151. On ACDC #151, developers agreed to finalize two new EIPs, EIP 7870 and 7872. Though neither of these EIPs require a hard fork to implement, they will still be official documents that live on in the Ethereum GitHub repository. EIP 7872 specifies how client teams should implement the max blob flag for the benefit of local validators and EIP 7870 specifies minimum hardware and bandwidth requirements for validators. Christine explains both in more detail and why there’s still work that needs to be done on EIP 7870.

Show note links: 

• ACDC #151 Call Notes (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-151/)
• Pectra Retrospective w/Nixo and Yorick (https://open.spotify.com/episode/45Ws5Ekc1oqFXcJWvPM2eW)

Timestamps:

(00:00:49) Holesky upgrade incoming!

(00:04:58) EIP-7872, Max blob flag

(00:10:35) EIP-7870, Validator hardware and bandwidth

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This episode was recorded on Friday, February 7, 2025.

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