Ethereum's latest ACDE meeting: plans to release the next dedicated test network for Pectra upgrade in the next week

Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy, shared key takeaways from the latest call of Ethereum Core Developers (ACDE), where developers shared their progress in implementing various code changes, including Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) 7251 and 7702, as well as Ethereum Virtual Object Format (EOF) and PeerDAS. The developers first discussed Pectra Devnet 1 in the meeting. They aim to release the next dedicated testnet for the Pectra upgrade in the coming week. Major spec changes between the previous testnet Devnet 0 and the upcoming testnet include: adding validator merges triggered by EL, and replacing EIP 3074 with EIP 7702. As the client team shared updates, one developer asked if the EOF implementation would be excluded from Devnet 1. Beiko confirmed that EOF would not be tested on Devnet 1, and that the EOF implementation should be rebuilt based on the latest Pectra specs, not the final Deneb specs. Barnabas Busa, developer operations engineer at the Ethereum Foundation (EF), emphasized that this strategy will make debugging EOF more difficult because the Pectra spec is changing and debugging is also ongoing. Regarding the EIP 7702 update, although developers are implementing EIP 7702 on Devnet 1, the code change is still likely to be significantly revised to support new features, especially the ability for users to revoke authorization for transactions that enable EIP 7702. The project team believes that finalizing the design of EIP 7702 is an important issue and recommends that developers organize further discussions to reach consensus. Regarding the EOF update, the Busa team will test the EOF implementation after the Pectra code changes, and the EL client team tracks EOF readiness on GitHub. Besu and Reth have implemented all EOF EIPs, and other teams are still building. The Erigon team recommends adding EOF transaction test cases. The EF test team is publishing more EOF tests and will share more content. EOF meetings were moved to bi-weekly, and now that the specs are finalized, the focus has shifted to testing and client implementations. In addition, the PeerDAS development network is expected to go live in the next week or two, based on the Dencun spec instead of Pectra. Tim Beiko also shared a proposal template for an EIP discussion thread, while EF Developer Operations Engineer Parithosh Jayanthi highlighted a new GitHub page called "eth-clients" that provides configurations for the Ethereum mainnet and testnet. Finally, Beiko reminded the teams that the next ACDE call will be held on July 4, a US holiday.