Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 142 Agenda

[timbeiko]

Meeting Info

• This will be the last AllCoreDevs call held on a Friday, starting from call 143, scheduled for July 21, AllCoreDevs will be held at 14:00 UTC on Thursdays
• July 8, 2022, 14:00 UTC
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Youtube Stream: https://youtu.be/K_Cjn74lMSY
• Zoom: shared on #allcoredevs Discord server shortly before the call

Agenda

• Gray Glacier Updates
• Merge Updates
  • Sepolia Merge
  • Ropsten & Sepolia mergeNetsplitBlocks
  • Make explicit that the child of LVH is INVALID execution-apis#254
  • Coordination-Thread: Merge Göerli execution-testnet with Prater consensus-testnet eth-clients/goerli#98
    • Guidance for current PoA signers
  • mev-boost updates
• EIP Discussions
  • EIP-4444 updates
• Announcements:
  • Next ACD: Thursday July 21, 14:00 UTC
  • Merge Community Call #5 #564

[MariusVanDerWijden]

We should discuss the mergeNetsplitBlocks for ropsten and sepolia

[come-maiz]

I would like to give a status update on mev-boost, and the plan from Flashbots for the next months.
We want to start the discussion on some topics and hear your thoughts.

• Where we are: 🥳
  • A permissionless protocol for validators to participate in MEV extraction
  • A stable relay that can connect to multiple builders
  • A block builder optimized for MEV extraction
  • 2 consensus clients ready for testing https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost#consensus-clients-implementation-status
• What comes next:
  • call for testing! Add the mev-boost call for testing flashbots/flashbots-writings-website#23
  • testing guide: https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/wiki/Testing
  • mev-boost adoption
  • data transparency
  • community
  • more builders Do you want to run a builder?  flashbots/mev-boost#145
  • a relay monitor Relay monitoring & preventing continued relay errors flashbots/mev-boost#142
• Open questions:
  • https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/wiki/Research#open-questions
  • sealed bids Should mev-boost log bid value on a payload request/response? flashbots/mev-boost#179
• mev-boost on goerli
• mev-boost on proof-of-work? 🤯
• questions? comments? hate-mail? love letters?

[mkalinin]

I would like to quickly discuss one potential clarification to the Engine API spec ethereum/execution-apis#254, it is related to latestValidHash cc @potuz

[timbeiko]

Closed in favour of #572