Ethereum Cat Herders Meeting #118

[poojaranjan]

Date and Time

Sep 26, 2023 at 13:00 UTC [Please note the change of meeting time]

Location

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84834303064?pwd=YTVDNUxvSjEzL1VTOXNoNmI1a2RlZz09 Video at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD9iiIwTRtLDYcEWONs2Q3A

Agenda

New users on ECH Discord and/or contributor's introduction

0. Ecosystem Project Demo - Gelato

1. Ethereum network upgrades

• 2 new EIPs added to Dencun upgrade
  • EIP-7514 (Add max epoch activation churn limit). Target churn is 8
  • EIP-7516 (BLOBBASEFEE opcode)
• Holešky - Launch Date: Sept/28, 2023, 12:00 UTC
  • Linux Epoch time: 1695902400
  • Shapella Epoch: 256
  • Epoch time: 1696000704 (Sept/29, 2023, 15:18:24 UTC)
  • Network ID: 17000
  • Chain ID: 17000
• Geth v1.13.1 is out
  • a thread on client diversity
• Cancun & Deneb upgrade
• Dencun Interop Testing Call 31 [2023-09-18]
• 4844 Readiness checklist

Useful resources

• Navigating Ethereum's 2024 Consensus Landscape by Terence
• Changes included in the Network Upgrade - Dencun
• Dencun upgrade PEEPanEIP Playlist
  • PEEPanEIP: Dencun Testing with Parithosh, Mario, Barnabas
  • PEEPanEIP: Keeping up with #Deneb Specification with Gajinder Singh
  • PEEPanEIP-1153: Transient storage opcodes with Moody Salem
  • PEEPanEIP-4844: Shard Blob Transactions with Terence
  • PEEPanEIP-7044: Perpetually Valid Signed Voluntary Exits with dappLion
  • PEEPanEIP-7045: Increase max attestation inclusion slot with Danny Ryan
  • PEEPanEIP-6780: SELFDESTRUCT only in same transaction
  • EIP-4788: Beacon block root in the EVM
  • EIP-5656: MCOPY - Memory copying instruction
  • EIP-7516: BLOBBASEFEE opcode [TBA]
  • EIP-7514: Add max epoch activation churn limit [TBA]

2. Other Protocol Development & Research

• EOF Implementers [Meeting 23]

3. Events, Fellowship, Hackathon

• EthIndia - 8-10 Dec, 2023
• ERC @ Devconnect
• Devconnect - Istanbul - November 13-19, 2023.

4. New initiative/association/team discussion

• Twitter (blue check)
• Ecosystem Project Demo
• Meet The Herders
• Create a video series on how to run a full node - TBA
• Contributors to send weekly Tweets or repost on social media to increase reach
• Any new ideas for community engagement?

5. General updates/discussion

• ECH Stats.
  • Twitter - 6690 Followers
  • Discord - 2.2k users
  • YouTube - 3185 subscribers
  • LinkedIn - 300 Followers
• ECH engineering
  • ECH Website
  • [x] A page for Dencun
  • [x] A page for PEEPanEIP - proposed design
• ECH Operations
  • YouTube Shorts
    • PEEPanEIP shorts Community Playlist
    • Splitting the ECH meeting video to create a general community update video and share it with the community
  • ECH Podcast
• EIPs Insight & EIPsInsight website
• PEEPanEIP
  • Upcoming meetings can be found on PEEPanEIP schedule
• Meeting notes and action items for ECH
  • All Core Dev Execution Notes 170
  • All Core Dev Consensus Notes 118
  • EIPIP meeting 90
  • EIP Editing Office Hour Meeting 25 Recording & Agenda 26

6. Review of outstanding action items from previous ECH meetings

• Meeting [117]

The date for the next meeting is Oct 10, 2023

(If anything else, leave a comment.)

[Aleneth]

Agenda from the Project Demo:

Gelato team will be doing an demo this week, their website https://www.gelato.network/ We have shared a tweet about it - https://twitter.com/EthCatHerders/status/1705416373327855972 @poojaranjan

[Aleneth]

To discuss: We're eager to purchase a Twitter/X paid plan. This will grant us the ability to tweet without character limits and enhance our authenticity, adding credibility from the community's perspective.

[poojaranjan]

Closing in favor of #373