Ethereum Cat Herders Update #32
Yolov2 is launched, Binary trie format, Medalla deep dive, EIP-1559, and other Ethereum community updates.
Welcome to another edition of the Ethereum Cat Herders community update to bring you up to speed since the last update.
Ethereum 1.0
Ethereum All Core Developers meeting
Binary trie format
Guillaume Ballet shared a proposal for moving the Ethereum state to a binary trie instead of a hexary trie however he chose to keep migration to the binary trie separate and not part of the current spec as there are many migration approaches that can be considered.
Next steps: Guillaume will submit a proper EIP and publish more benchmarks on http://ethresear.ch.
EIP-2926: Chunk-Based Code Merkleization
This proposal is to reduce the block witness size for stateless Ethereum. Sina Mahmoodi shared the basic idea that chunks are made out of codes and Merkle Trie is made out of it. Replace the code hash in the account record with the root of the Merkle tree.
Current status: Some values are still missing from the spec, Sina is still benchmarking in Geth. Open for feedback.
Alexey A. mentioned that he was working on an alternative to this EIP.
Vitalik B. suggested that Kate commitments could also be used in addition to the Merkle root.
Next steps: Sina to continue working on the specs.
EIP-2565: ModExp Gas Cost
This is a simple gas cost change proposal. Geth, Besu, and OpenEthereum can support the change, but Nethermind still needs to find a good library to do so. It may be considered for Yolov3 if Nethermind is in.
Ephemeral testnets, YOLOv2 & v3
- Yolo-v2 is launched.
- Ethstats: https://yolov2.ethdevops.io/ (password
yolov2) , faucet: https://faucet.yolov2.ethdevops.io/ and explorer https://explorer.yolov2.ethdevops.io/ . - The genesis is here: https://gist.github.com/holiman/b5f6e9a69cbe2c67c2b3822c15dbfc17
- yolov2 bootnode: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/master/params/bootnodes.go#L73
- Besu’s on yolov2 —
docker run hyperledger/besu:develop --Xberlin-enabled=true --network=yolo_v2 --sync-mode=full - Nethermind is waiting for more tests to be available before completing their implementation.
- TurboGeth and OpenEthereum aren’t joining the network.
- All EIPs must change the status from Draft to Review, mentioned Micah and me.
Flat database
Tim Beiko asked about having a “flat database” call. All clients — TurboGeth, Geth, Besu, and Nethermind are working on a way to store the state in a “flat” representation. Tim organized a call last week to compare notes across teams.
Account Abstraction
- A Developer’s Guide to Account Abstraction with Ansgar Dietrichs & Sam Wilson
ACD meeting#98: agenda, video, live-tweet by Tim Beiko, notes.
The next ACD meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 30, 2020, at 14:00 UTC. Agenda.
Clients’ update
- Geth v1.9.23 — Tupari
Ethereum 2.0
- Eth2 Medalla — a data-driven deep dive by By Elias Simos and Sid Shekhar
- ETH 2.0 AMA with Danny Ryan
- “Intro to ETH2 & Staking for Beginners” by Superphiz at ETHGlobal
- Attesting the Health of Ethereum 2.0
- EIP 3030 proposal for a standard interface for remote signing.
- Eth2 Implementers’ Call #50: Agenda, video, notes, Ben’s notes. The next implementers’ call is on Thursday, Oct 29 1400 UTC.
- What’s New in Eth2–18 October 2020 by Ben Edgington.
Clients
- Prysmatic Labs release — https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.0
- Discovering Lighthouse: Branding the Eth2.0 Client
EIP-1559 fees market change
1559 Outreach
- 2nd round of outreach is in progress
- Wallet and exchanges are the primary targets for this outreach
- A few user-interviews completed since the release of the first outreach report.
- If you’re from an exchange, wallet, mining pools, project on Ethereum chain or infrastructure providers, and have questions on the proposal, contact tim.beiko@consensys.net or poojaranjan@etherworld.co to schedule a meeting today.
- If you haven’t responded to the questionnaire yet, consider responding now!
The next 1559 Implementers meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Nov 5th at 15:00 UTC Agenda.
EIPIP working group
- EIPIP meeting#19: agenda, video.
- The next EIPIP meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 04, 2020, at 15:00 UTC. Agenda.
Community updates
- clr.fund just kicked off its first real-money matching round, with a handful of Ethereum public goods projects and roughly ~$1,000 in matching funds.
- ETHOnline — Future of Ethereum Summit
- EthPlanet’s Building the Next Digital World Hackathon Winner Announced
Ethereum Cat Herders
Peep an EIP
Released video
- Peep an EIP-2935 with Tomasz Stanczak. (Canonizer started a petition topic for EIP-2935 here.)
Scheduled
- EIP-2718: Typed Transaction Envelope with Micah Zoltu
- EIP-2982: Serenity Phase 0 with Danny Rayn
- EIP-778: Ethereum Node Records (ENR) with Felix Lange
- 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 #44: Agenda, video, notes.
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