Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 125 Agenda

[timbeiko]

Meeting Info

• October 29, 2021, 14:00 UTC
  • Last Daylight Savings Time call. Daylight savings ends before ACD126, but UTC time will not move.
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Youtube Stream: https://youtu.be/5cOWjMAuReI
• Zoom: To be shared on #allcoredevs Discord server shortly before the call

Agenda

• Merge Updates EIP-3675: Upgrade consensus to Proof-of-Stake #361
• Arrow Glacier
• Proposal to Include EIP-4396 in the Shanghai Hard Fork #406
• Verkle Tries update

[dankrad]

If anyone wants to read up for the verkle trie update, please read up here to get a summary for the suggested statelessness roadmap: https://notes.ethereum.org/Yn_mwNa2SeeQHnKsRgekKg

[adietrichs]

If there is time, I would like to briefly discuss the base fee calculation EIP I just published: #406

[holiman]

@adietrichs I saw a write-up a few weeks ago, I think written by Vitalik, where he proposed a basefee modification + explainer with concrete examples about how it would work with regards to transactions in the pool. I don't know if you know what write-up I'm talking about, but if you do -- do you know where it is? And is it about the same thing as you describe in that EIP?

[holiman]

ArrowGlacier fork id: 0x20c327fc (please double-check)

[poojaranjan]

Other resources on Verkle Tries

• PEEPanEIP - Verkle tries for Ethereum state with Dankrad Feist
• Stateless Meeting - Verkle Tries

[adietrichs]

@adietrichs I saw a write-up a few weeks ago, I think written by Vitalik, where he proposed a basefee modification + explainer with concrete examples about how it would work with regards to transactions in the pool. I don't know if you know what write-up I'm talking about, but if you do -- do you know where it is? And is it about the same thing as you describe in that EIP?

I assume you might be thinking of the "Make EIP 1559 more like an AMM curve" proposal? Or maybe some similar proposal.

I'd argue those are orthogonal to this EIP: The EIP modifies the signal used for the base fee update (how full was the last block? how full should it have been?), whereas these proposals by Vitalik & co deal with how to update the base fee given a specific signal. I also have some thoughts on the latter, but decided to keep them out of the EIP to really make it single-purpose.

[timbeiko]

Closed in favor of #407