Ethereum Cat Herders Update #30

Eth2.0 Spadina testnet launch, Eth1.0 clients’ update, EIP-1559, ProgPOW, breakout-room, Peep an EIP, community updates, and more.

Welcome to another edition of the Ethereum Cat Herders community update to bring you up to the speed since the last update.

Ethereum 2.0

Spadina testnet launch

• The Spadina testnet is launched today. It’s a final practice, a dress rehearsal for (Phase 0) Eth2.0 launch. It is planned to be a short-lived testnet — for about 72 hrs.
• Testnet launch recording available.
• The initial node participation reported was 34%. It’s time to start your node.
• It is observed that the Launch tooling are very effective, but the same kind of issues reported that was observed with the Madalla testnet.
• According to Danny, 90% of the expected results have been achieved, it gave users a chance to run everything, developers a chance to run everything. Implementers will try to look into the issue and try to figure things out.
• The Spadina Launchpad is live.

Hudson Jameson helped run the live stream on behalf of the Cat Herders. The Cat Herders will continue to help on future calls as needed with their input.

• Danny Rayn’s eth2 quick update no. 17
• Danny and Vitalik released EIP-2982: Serenity Phase 0.
• Prysmatic Lab — Eth 2.0 Dev Update #56 — “Getting ready for Spadina”
• Voluntary exit implementation ready.
• Upgrades & hard forks in ETH2 — Preston Van Loon investigated a potential implementation for applying upgrades in phase 0. Check out the one-page design document here. In a collaborative effort, Danny Ryan responded in another document here.

Eth2.0 implementers’ meeting #48: agenda, video, notes by the Ethereum Cat Herders.

The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 01, 2020, at 14:00 UTC.

Ethereum 1.0 clients’ update

• Geth: Noverian Rum (v1.9.22)
• OpenEthereum: openethereum/backport-3.1 is available for testing.
• TurboGeth: v2020.09.04-alpha

Breakout room

• Breakout room meeting #3: Agenda and summary.
• Network upgrade process tracker — https://github.com/ethereum/eth1.0-specs/projects/1
• The client’s status tracker (YOLOv2) — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BomvS0hjc88eTfx1b8Ufa6KYS3vMEb2c8TQ5HJWx2lc/edit#gid=408811124
• Next meeting: Not scheduled. (Depends on any request that pops up in the Discord breakout-room or proposed in the next All Core Dev meeting.)

Ethereum All Core Developers meeting

EIP-1057: ProgPoW,

• EIP-1057 will be merged but clients are not obligated to implement it.
• The community will set up a testnet for ProgPOW but core developers will not be responsible to maintain it.

EIP-2539: BLS12–377 curve

James Prestwich, from CeloOrg mentioned that they would like to contribute to the work on EIP-2537: Precompile for BLS12–381 curve operations as well as EIP-2539: BLS-12377.

EIP-1559: Fee market change

• Geth and Besu team are working on investigating whether the network could handle 2x sized blocks for even a short period of time. This is one of the road blockers for the proposal.
• Tim Beiko requested for feedback on EIP-1559.
• The State of 1559 — Update 001 🔥
• Strategic users in EIP 1559
• The next EIP-1559 meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Oct 8th at 14:00 UTC. Agenda.

ACD meeting#96: agenda, video, live-tweet by Tim Beiko.

The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 02, 2020, at 14:00 UTC.

EIPIP working group

EIP standardization process

• EIPIP meeting #17: Agenda, video, notes.
• The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct 07, 2020, at 1500UTC. Agenda.

Community updates

• ETHPlanet Hackathon Workshop 1: Ethereum Improvement Proposal by me. Join us on October 1, at 10 am EST.
• ETHOnline: October 2nd-30th 2020
• Gitcoin Introduces Grant Collections
• Status Desktop is back as the beta v0.1.0 release

Ethereum Cat Herders

1559 Outreach

• Cat Herders are reaching miners, wallets, exchanges, on-chain projects, and infrastructure providers to provide intro of the fee market change proposal and collect feedback, suggestions if they have any.
• To open a channel of communication, we’re also scheduling meeting to understand challenges to implemnet the proposal at the user ends and answer any questions.
• So far, 21 responses have been recorded that includes 5 user interviews.
• Volunteers to answer the questionnaires and the user interview includes projects like Etherscan, Infura, Chainlink, Metamask, Synthetix, and various mining pools and individual miners.

Peep an EIP

Released videos

Scheduled

• EIP-2565: Repricing of the EIP-198 ModExp precompile
• Follow EIP scheduled at ECH GitHub. If you have any questions related to a proposal, or you want to join a talk with the author, reach me on Twitter.

ECH meeting

• Ethereum Cat Herder Meeting #42: Agenda, video, notes.

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