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Here's a recap spotlighting what Protocol Guild members have worked on recently ⛓🛡

Pectra, Hoodi testnet, EIPs + more - let’s dive in! ↓

The next Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is expected to go live in 1-2 months as testing wraps up—and there's something for everyone!

Pectra will double Ethereum's blob capacity to further scale L2s, will grant smart contract-like capabilities to every single Ethereum address.

This will give wallets and application devs the tools to significantly improve onchain experience, and will also enable stake consolidation and compounding for validators.

More on Pectra:

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In this week's core dev call chaired by @ralexstokes, the decision on Pectra's mainnet activation was postponed to next week's call, to allow time for another testnet (Hoodi) to complete the Pectra migration.

There were also discussions about including EIP-7688 in the subsequent upgrade after Pectra, as well when to launch history expiry, but both decisions were deferred for later.

For more details see here:

In this week's core dev call chaired by @ralexstokes, the decision on Pectra's mainnet activation was postponed to next week's call, to allow time for another testnet (Hoodi) to complete the Pectra migration.

There were also discussions about including EIP-7688 in the subsequent upgrade after Pectra, as well when to launch history expiry, but both decisions were deferred for later.

For more details see here: https://x.com/abcoathup/status/1902902516981043364

@tim and Mario Havel coauthored a post-mortem on the Holešky Pectra incident, covering how the testnet managed to finalize after 2 weeks of issues, as well as learnings from the process: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/Pectra/holesky-postmortem.md

Phil Ngo from the Lodestar client also shared their retrospective, including more proof about the importance of running minority clients!

@tim and Mario Havel coauthored a post-mortem on the Holešky Pectra incident, covering how the testnet managed to finalize after 2 weeks of issues, as well as learnings from the process: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/Pectra/holesky-postmortem.md

Phil Ngo from the Lodestar client also shared their retrospective, including more proof about the importance of running minority clients!

https://x.com/philngo_/status/1902792949617819757

@parithosh_j
 also announced the Hoodi tesnet going live, replacing Holešky as the go-to playground for staking operators and infra providers: https://x.com/parithosh_j/status/1902356599584219331

If you want to test the Pectra migration, make sure to get setup on Hoodi before March 26 @ 07:37:12 UTC!

@mikeneuder
 from the Applied Research Group co-wrote an article summarizing the current exit process for Ethereum validators and how it's changing in the Pectra upgrade.

In brief, Ethereum's validators are fundamental to protocol security, making it essential that they can't exit without proper safeguards. Given that Pectra introduces validator consolidation and compounding of stake, we can no longer assume 1 validator = 32 ETH, which requires changes to the exit queue dynamics and the way the protocol processes sweeps.

If you're a validator, or are thinking about becoming one, this might be interesting to you:

@mikeneuder
 from the Applied Research Group co-wrote an article summarizing the current exit process for Ethereum validators and how it's changing in the Pectra upgrade.

In brief, Ethereum's validators are fundamental to protocol security, making it essential that they can't exit without proper safeguards. Given that Pectra introduces validator consolidation and compounding of stake, we can no longer assume 1 validator = 32 ETH, which requires changes to the exit queue dynamics and the way the protocol processes sweeps.

If you're a validator, or are thinking about becoming one, this might be interesting to you: https://x.com/mikeneuder/status/1901711180416376983

https://x.com/ProtocolGuild/status/1903124947393974592

https://x.com/ProtocolGuild/status/1903124949029753132

https://x.com/ProtocolGuild/status/1903124951328231789

Rest of thread in X posts below: https://x.com/ProtocolGuild/status/1903124953416994896

The next Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is expected to go live in 1-2 months as testing wraps up—and there's something for everyone!

Pectra will double Ethereum's blob capacity to further scale L2s, will grant smart contract-like capabilities to every single Ethereum address.

This will give wallets and application devs the tools to significantly improve onchain experience, and will also enable stake consolidation and compounding for validators.

More on Pectra: https://tim.mirror.xyz/emiQJfRCb5sdnY018t-CeFDIye_Ehn4mieXI6kn5aXA