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ACDT2026-02-23_071

AllCoreDevs — Testing #071

2026-02-23 4 decisions 349 transcript lines

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Call summary

Targets
  • February 27th (ACDE) - EIP-8037 tests release for DevNet-3 — 00:30:50
  • March 4th - BAL-DevNet-3 launch — 00:32:00
  • March 4th - EPBS DevNet-0 launch — 00:42:42
Decisions
  • EIP-8037 DevNet-3: hardcode cost-per-byte using 100M gas formula; full dynamic version on DevNet-4 — 00:29:10
  • testing_buildBlockV1 endpoint required for clients starting DevNet-4 — 00:36:48
  • EPBS DevNet-0 launches March 4th with minimum 3 clients ready — 00:42:42
  • BloatNet focus: reliable automated bloating over speed; 2 months to 10x acceptable — 00:51:21
Highlights
  • Epbs Devnet 0:
    • ·Lodestar/Lighthouse interop working; Teku ready end-week; Prism next week — 00:41:11
    • ·DevNet-0 launch scheduled March 4th regardless of client count — 00:42:42
  • Fusaka Updates:
    • ·Blob-devnet-0 testing partial cells; Lighthouse/Prism live, disconnects under investigation — 00:15:07
    • ·Need Teku, Nimbus, Grandine, Lodestar onboarded; Lodestar hopeful this week — 00:16:13
    • ·All ELs have partial cells/GetBlobV3 in trunk branches — 00:18:31
  • State Bloat Devnet:
    • ·BloatNet back online; reached milestone contracts larger than mainnet max — 00:46:49
    • ·Network instability at 100M gas + 3x state; clients breaking already — 00:48:10
    • ·Proposal: validate equal key distribution at 300M gas before further bloat — 00:48:56
  • Testing Infrastructure:
    • ·testing_buildBlockV1 endpoint: new testing namespace separates from debug namespace — 00:33:37
    • ·Enables arbitrary block building, simplifies benchmarking and stateful test generation — 00:35:03
    • ·Tests now available; PR will merge this week after review — 00:37:04
  • Glamsterdam Bal Devnet 3:
    • ·EIP-8037 dynamic cost-per-byte blocked on testing framework complexity — 00:19:48
    • ·DevNet-3: hardcode cost-per-byte at 100M gas; dynamic version on DevNet-4 — 00:26:08
    • ·Spencer targets tests by ACDE Thursday using ills PR — 00:30:50
    • ·EIP-3155 tracer changes (state gas, state gas cost) approved — 00:32:40
  • Gas Repricing Benchmarking:
    • ·Repricing tests: full benchmark loop exceeds 1 day for single data point — 00:43:52
    • ·Test definition issues found; EIP-8038 numbers delayed past month-end — 00:45:36
    • ·Amsterdam fork tests require testing_buildBlockV1 with fork parameter support — 00:53:20
Action Items
  • Spencer — Publish EIP-8037 ills PR with hardcoded cost-per-byte for DevNet-3 — 00:30:50
  • Barnabas — Update DevNet-3 spec sheet referencing hardcoded 8037 ills PR — 00:31:00
  • Parithosh — Merge testing_buildBlockV1 execution-apis PR #747 with tests — 00:36:20
  • CL teams — Review ePBS consensus-specs PRs (4792, 4817, 4772, 4826) — 00:40:58

Meeting chat129

  • Potuz

    gm

  • felix (eest)

    gm

  • Justin Traglia

    Gm

  • Marius van der Wijden

    Small group today

  • Dustin

    missed the context, this is bal-devnet-2?

  • Caleb

    no

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Blob-devnet-0

  • Barnabas

    oops

  • Mario Vega

    Context: EIP-8037 on BAL-Devnet-3

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    re: reth missing blocks and devnet-2, fix is here: https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/pull/22490

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." Not really worth bringing it up on the call afaik

  • Mario Vega

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  • Mario Vega

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  • Jen

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  • felipe

    Reacted to "Not really worth b..." with 👍🏼

  • Jen

    Reacted to "re: reth missing blo..." with 👍🏼

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." do we need to wipe db?

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." looks like it has been merged an hour ago, so the new img should be ready to roll

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." cc @Jen

  • Dragan Rakita

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." This is on block building, didn’t use good gas limit for 7778

  • Jen

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." Yep PR was merged, any more action needed from our side?

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." Ok, so you didn’t store anything invalid in your db?

  • Dustin

    if a postponement decision is made can it be made soon?

  • Dragan Rakita

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." That would be the case

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." Yeah afaik it was just about missing blocks, not a db corruption

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." 6a633a4 is rolled out

  • Dustin

    doing it in a week or whatever is pointless

  • Dustin

    meh ok

  • Justin Traglia

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  • Dragan Rakita

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  • Dustin

    does Maria's proposal make testing easier?

  • Dragan Rakita

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  • Toni Wahrstätter

    Someone remind me please, did we decide to have eth/70 on devnet-3?

  • Dragan Rakita

    devnet3 hackmd is good place

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "Someone remind me pl..." yes as an optional thing

  • felipe

    Reacted to "devnet3 hackmd is ..." with ➕

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Replying to "Someone remind me pl..." Eth/70 also has its own devnet

  • Marius van der Wijden

    Reacted to devnet3 hackmd is go... with "👍"

  • Dragan Rakita

    Replying to "devnet3 hackmd is go..." https://notes.ethereum.org/@ethpandaops/bal-devnet-3

  • Daniel Lehrner (Besu)

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  • Daniel Lehrner (Besu)

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  • Barnabas

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  • felipe

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Replying to "Someone remind me pl..." https://dora.nft-devnet-10.ethpandaops.io/

  • Jen

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  • Jen

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  • Jen

    Replying to "re: reth missing blo..." Ty !

  • Jen

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  • Toni Wahrstätter

    Replying to "Someone remind me pl..." great thanks!

  • felix (eest)

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    What’s our updated timeline for devnet-3?

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "What’s our updated t..." same as before, 4th march

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Reacted to "same as before, 4th ..." with 👍🏽

  • Jen

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  • Mario Vega

    https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7954

  • Mario Vega

    https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/747

  • Vukasin

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  • Barnabas

    I think first we should merge if the spec is good

  • Barnabas

    then talk about impl.

  • Dustin

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    We’ll merge it in this week

  • Barnabas

    Reacted to "We’ll merge it in th..." with 👍

  • Justin Traglia

    For ePBS, there are some open PRs I would like core devs to review. See this comment: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1932#issuecomment-3944893338

  • Marius van der Wijden

    Geth has a working impl

  • Justin Florentine (Besu)

    this is a recurring and frustrating problem tbh

  • Justin Florentine (Besu)

    we need tests that are decoupled from implementations

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    We’ll get there eventually 😄 we had this refactor merged in last week too: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/751 it already makes the contribution to the rpc specs way easier

  • Justin Florentine (Besu)

    Replying to "We’ll get there even..." awesome!

  • nflaig

    we have working interop with lodestar<>lighthouse

  • Barnabas

    Reacted to "we have working inte..." with 🏋️

  • Marius van der Wijden

    Replying to "we have working inte..." Epbs?

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Replying to "We’ll get there even..." Contributor guide will come up next to make it easier 😄

  • Marius van der Wijden

    Replying to "we have working inte..." Lets gooo

  • Stefan Bratanov

    For Teku, we hope we can be interop ready towards end of week or early next week

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

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  • Potuz

    We’re sprinting, don’t bug us that we can barely listen to this call cause we are coding faster than Claude right now

  • Barnabas

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  • g1

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  • Gaia

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  • Gaia

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  • Yassine F

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  • Barnabas

    Replying to "We’re sprinting, don..." “are we there yet?”

  • NC

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Replying to "We’re sprinting, don..." “Have you tried using 2 Claude accounts”?

  • Potuz

    Prysm we won’t make it end of this week but we are definitely aiming for next one

  • James He

    Started a branch for devnet 0 in case we don’t have everything merged into develop

  • Justin Traglia

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  • Justin Traglia

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  • felix (eest)

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  • nflaig

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  • Barnabas

    Lets set a realistic launch date set for 4th of March as well!

  • Potuz

    That sounds very good for me

  • Gaia

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  • Dragan Rakita

    Replying to "We’re sprinting, don..." Spawn subagents 😄

  • Marius van der Wijden

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

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  • Potuz

    Replying to "We’re sprinting, don..." I don’t get paid that much

  • Justin Traglia

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

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  • g1

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  • Barnabas

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  • Mario Vega

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  • Gaia

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    https://benchmarkoor.core.ethpandaops.io

  • felipe

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  • Parithosh Jayanthi

    Rafael soft launched the benchmarkoor rewrite

  • Barnabas

    Replying to "Rafael soft launched..." he gave us an update last week on acdt

  • Parithosh Jayanthi

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  • jochem-brouwer

    Is it the state or is it the gas limit of bloating per block?

  • jochem-brouwer

    Yes exactly

  • Barnabas

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  • Justin Traglia

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  • Marius van der Wijden

    I agree, imo we should bloat more reliable, not faster. I don't care if it takes 2 months to get to 10x mainnet if its an automatic process

  • jochem-brouwer

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  • Potuz

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  • wolovim

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  • James He

    Epf.wiki

  • jochem-brouwer

    https://epf.wiki

  • g1

    https://epf.wiki/#/

  • Potuz

    That’s a great link to learn how to test

  • Ahmad

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Key decisions

  • EIP-8037 DevNet-3: hardcode cost-per-byte using 100M gas formula; full dynamic version on DevNet-4

    DevNet-3dynamic cost-per-byte blocked on testing framework complexity
  • testing_buildBlockV1 endpoint required for clients starting DevNet-4

    DevNet-4
  • EPBS DevNet-0 launches March 4th with minimum 3 clients ready

    DevNet-0
  • BloatNet focus: reliable automated bloating over speed; 2 months to 10x acceptable

EIPs discussed