Podcast • October 01, 2024
In this episode
On Ep.53 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #197, where founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin voiced his support for the inclusion of additional code changes in Pectra to increase Ethereum’s blob capacity. As background, blobs are a type of transaction on Ethereum that is usually priced more cheaply than regular user transaction. Blobs are designed to temporarily store arbitrary data on the network such as batched transaction data from rollups. Developers are concerned that the introduction of blobs through the Dencun upgrade has negatively impacted the viability of home staking, that is operating validators on resource-constrained devices. They agreed to conduct a data-driven investigation into the impact of blobs and increasing the number of blobs per block on home stakers before deciding on the inclusion of additional EIPs in Pectra.
Show note links:
- https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-197/
- https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-150-days-after-dencun/
Timestamps:
(00:01:18) Updates to the scope of Pectra, Fusaka, and Amsterdam
(00:07:26) A rare example of unanimous support for a decision on ACD
(00:14:26) What Vitalik said about Pectra on ACDE 197
(00:18:24) Concerns about increasing the blob capacity in Pectra
(00:21:10) Updates about Pectra Devnet 4 timeline
(00:22:30) What blob-related EIPs are in the running for Pectra inclusion?
(00:27:10) What are the minimum requirements to run an Ethereum node?
This episode was recorded on Thursday, September 27, 2024.
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