The 200th Ethereum ACDE meeting: Developers discuss removing EIP 7610 from Pectra

Christine Kim, vice president of research at Galaxy, summarized the 200th Ethereum Core Developers Executive (ACDE) call, during which developers shared updates on the Pectra development network (devnet) and next steps for the PeerDAS devnet, as well as discussed short-term solutions to Ethereum's historical growth issues and the removal of EIP 7610 from Pectra. EIP 7610 is one of two retroactive EIPs in Pectra, which does not add any functionality to the protocol but formalizes and constrains protocol rules. Parithosh Jayanthi, EF developer operations engineer, said that the official blog post announcing the Mekong testnet has been published on the Ethereum Foundation website. The post details how application and tool developers can join the testnet and start experimenting with EIPs in Pectra. Jayanthi also said that his team plans to deprecate Pectra Devnet 4 soon. The proposed changes to EIP 7702 discussed at ACDE 199 have been deployed by a developer named "Frangio." Given the lack of objections, Tim Beiko confirmed that the changes will be added to the spec for Pectra Devnet 5. Geth developer Felix Lange proposed improving the fee logic of the withdrawal contract detailed in EIP 7002 (Execution layer can trigger withdrawals). Beiko suggested that developers continue to discuss the improvements asynchronously and strive to make a final decision on them before the next ACDE meeting. Erigon developer Giulio Rebuffo proposed a new EIP to extend the functionality of the Ethereum wire protocol and provide a short-term solution to the history growth problem. Rebuffo said that due to the growth of historical data, validators will need hardware operating at least 4TB disks by mid-2025. Alternative solutions for pruning historical data, EIP 4444 and Portal Network, may not be ready in time to prevent validator node operators from updating their equipment in about 6 months. Lange believes that since EIP 4444 is not "critical path", integration with Portal has not yet begun in earnest, which means it is not a necessary EIP for the upcoming hard fork. Developers will continue to discuss it at Devcon. Note: There will be no ACDE conference call on November 21, and a live gathering of Ethereum developers will be held at the Devcon conference.