Ethereum core developers: will delay the release of Devnet #8 until the new 4788 specification is implemented

Odaily Planet Daily News Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko summarized the latest Ethereum core developer executive meeting in Discord. Among other things, the developers agree to continue using regular contracts with system-written transactions, rather than precompiled. Before Monday's test call, developers will try to: (1) agree on a deployment plan (either as part of a fork or manually before a fork); (2) agree on the first contract implementation to use; Spec 4788 submits a PR reflecting this. Once developers agree on a contract, an audit/formal verification process will be initiated; This meeting decided to postpone the release of Devnet #8 until the new 4788 specification is implemented; Regarding EIP-6780, we will continue to merge "adding explanations for EIP-6780"; Regarding the Engine API, agree to add blobGasUsed and blobGasPrice to the receipt of the 4844 transaction. The developer will also amend the PR to mention that Dencun upgrades must use forkChoiceUpdateV3, which will then be merged into "Clarify early API handling of Cancun payloads; reorder check #426"; Regarding the large-scale validator testnet, the EF development team has launched a development network with 2.1 million validators. The client distribution is similar to the mainnet. It will work with the client team to check and fix the finalization issue before Holesky launches. ) with block Gossip issues. Holesky plans to have around 1.5 million validators. In addition, the developers also introduced and discussed two account abstraction EIP proposals, namely EIP 5806 and 7377. Guillaume Ballet and josh rudolf give an update on Verkle.