Add Felix Hoffmann

[marioevz]

Name

Felix Hoffmann (@felix314159)

Team

STEEL (EF)

Short summary of their work / eligibility

• Contributed and continues to contribute to execution-spec-tests, with focus on adding framework features required for new EIPs, adding test cases and improving devex in EEST.

Link to some work

Code

• Adding EEST framework support for generating valid blobs via ckzg
• Adding new eth_config test mode to ensure client configurations match
• Improving devex by porting yul tests to EEST opcode wrapper, allows removing problematic dependency solc-select
• Accelerating the process of combining codebases of EEST and EELS, Example 1
• Adding test cases for request types of EIP-7685, Example 2
• Adding partial blob response test case to ensure clients respond correctly when being requested a blob that is not in their mempool
• Fixing gas limit for legacy static tests to support EIP-7825

In progress / Planned

Currently working on:

• Adding BPO related framework changes and test cases
• Accelerating the merge of EEST and EELS codebases

Start date of relevant projects

February 2025

Proposed weight (full or partial)

Full

[danceratopz]

Felix has worked hard testing Fusaka, helping ensure correct blob propagation on the EL side and ensuring that clients have the correct network configurations. For the latter, Felix added infra to test clients via their new eth_config endpoints (blog post). Also, his memes are second to none.