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ACDT2026-02-02_068

AllCoreDevs — Testing #068

2026-02-02 3 decisions 225 transcript lines

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Call summary

Targets
  • Wednesday, Feb 5 - bal-devnet-2 launch with first 4 Amsterdam EIPs — 00:11:38
  • Feb 18 (tentative) - epbs-devnet-0 launch with alpha.2 — 00:23:51
  • Feb 4 deadline - Hegota headliner proposals (2 days remaining) — 00:33:02
Decisions
  • epbs-devnet-0 targets consensus-specs v1.7.0-alpha.2 (blob KZG commitments in bid) — 00:24:22
  • Variable PTC deadline PR postponed to post-alpha.2 release — 00:29:03
  • DevNets will test strict subset of specs, not full fork choice — 00:29:48
Highlights
  • Epbs Devnet 0:
    • ·All CL teams favor v1.7.0-alpha.2 for epbs-devnet-0 (moves KZG commitments to bid) — 00:23:05
    • ·Alpha-2 simplifies implementation; Potuz: changes make DevNet faster to reach — 00:25:53
    • ·Variable PTC deadline postponed to later release; not needed for DevNets — 00:28:50
    • ·Builder withdrawability delay reduced to 64 epochs (from min builder delay removal) — 00:31:54
  • Fusaka Updates:
    • ·blob-devnet-0 launched; supernodes not respecting MIN_EPOCHS_FOR_DATA_COLUMN_SIDECARS_REQUESTS, storing 18d instead of 1d — 00:08:33
    • ·Prysm and Lighthouse need to respect 256 epoch flag or supernode costs escalate — 00:09:24
  • Glamsterdam Bal Devnet 2:
    • ·bal-devnet-2 targets Wednesday launch with first 4 EL-only EIPs — 00:11:38
    • ·Critical blockers: Besu/Nethermind remove gasSpent from Receipt RLP; Geth has 6 BAL bugs — 00:12:15
    • ·Reth/Erigon missing ETH logs, gas refunds, swapn/dupn; Nimbus gloas opcodes activated too early — 00:12:32
    • ·Test release 5.1.0 available; clients should test with EVM fuzzer — 00:13:31
Action Items
  • Daniel (Lighthouse), Manu (Prysm) — Fix MIN_EPOCHS_FOR_DATA_COLUMN_SIDECARS_REQUESTS respect in Prysm/Lighthouse — 00:09:26
  • Tony/EL teams — Merge execution-apis PRs 726 (EIP-7928 JSON RPC) and 727 (engine methods) by Wednesday — 00:14:40
  • Justin Traglia — Release consensus-specs v1.7.0-alpha.2 for epbs-devnet-0 — 00:28:02

Meeting chat51

  • Manu

    GM!

  • Potuz

    GM

  • Barnabas

    https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1901

  • Daniel Knopik

    will look into MIN_EPOCHS_FOR_DATA_COLUMN_SIDECARS_REQUESTS

  • Barnabas

    Reacted to "will look into MIN_E..." with 👍

  • Manu

    I will let know prism members working on partial cells

  • Barnabas

    Reacted to "I will let know pris..." with 👍

  • Manu

    prysm*

  • Stefan Starflinger

    https://notes.ethereum.org/@ethpandaops/bal-devnet-2

  • Stefan Starflinger

    https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1901#issuecomment-3834944827

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "https://notes.ethere..." if any client teams notice anything wrong, please ping us!

  • Barnabas

    https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/726

  • Barnabas

    https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/727

  • Karim T. (matkt)

    726 it’s done by Besu

  • Jared Wasinger

    Just joining now

  • felipe

    Reacted to "726 it’s done by ..." with 👍

  • Jared Wasinger

    Are we talking about eth_getBlockAccessList* not working here?

  • Stefan Starflinger

    Reacted to "726 it’s done by Bes..." with 👍

  • Toni Wahrstätter

    Replying to "Are we talking about..." Yeah

  • Stefan Starflinger

    Latest test version is 5.1.0

  • felipe

    Reacted to "Latest test versio..." with ☝️

  • Karim T. (matkt)

    Yes tried this one

  • Stefan Starflinger

    Reacted to "Yes tried this one" with 👍

  • Guru

    Reacted to "Yes tried this one" with 👍

  • felipe

    Reacted to "Yes tried this one" with 👍

  • Daniel Lehrner (Besu)

    Replying to "Latest test version ..." That’s the one we use with Besu

  • Potuz

    Just in case, but a lot of these would have to change when we rebase either 7732 on top of this or BAL on top of 7732

  • Stefan Starflinger

    https://hive.ethpandaops.io/#/group/bal-quick

  • Caleb

    Nimbus is pretty much ready: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/7881

  • felipe

    Reacted to "https://hive.ethpa..." with ➕

  • Guru

    Reacted to "Nimbus is pretty muc..." with 👍

  • Stefan Starflinger

    Nimbus-EL please have a look at 4. https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1901#issuecomment-3834944827

  • Caleb

    Reacted to "Nimbus-EL please h..." with 👍

  • Potuz

    Prysm is regularly merging on their develop branch. We are still targeting end of February for the devnet

  • Potuz

    Hopefully 25, doubt if it’s dev branch or one of Terence’s

  • Justin Traglia

    https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/4875

  • Potuz

    nice!

  • NC

    Replying to "https://github.com/e..." In favour of doing it

  • Justin Traglia

    Reacted to "In favour of doing i..." with 🙏

  • Stefan Bratanov

    Teku is in favour, makes few things (like DA checks) easier

  • Barnabas

    https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/issues/4858

  • Justin Traglia

    Replying to "https://github.com/e..." This issue is out of date now. Will update after the call.

  • Barnabas

    Reacted to "This issue is out of..." with 👍

  • Francesco

    Unless someone else wants to take up pushing forward that PR, I don’t have time to do so immediately, so would be happy if we can just postpone this

  • Justin Traglia

    Replying to "Unless someone else ..." Will postpone.

  • Potuz

    Replying to "Unless someone else ..." I can take care of it Francesco If you let me

  • Potuz

    Replying to "Unless someone else ..." I can add what I think should be the wording for it so that it deals with DA as well

  • Francesco

    Replying to "Unless someone else ..." Will reply on telegram after the call 😄 But yeah, go ahead

  • Potuz

    Replying to "Unless someone else ..." BTW, I opened one for DA already and we’re waiting for your review 🙂

  • Potuz

    Did that merge Justin?

  • Justin Traglia

    https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/4869

Key decisions

  • Variable PTC deadline PR postponed to post-alpha.2 release

    Postponed until after alpha.2 release
  • DevNets will test strict subset of specs, not full fork choice

    DevNets will test a subset of specs, not the full fork choice
  • epbs-devnet-0 targets consensus-specs v1.7.0-alpha.2 (blob KZG commitments in bid)

    epbs-devnet-0 will target consensus-specs v1.7.0-alpha.2