pm VS EIPs

Get involved in the next public testnet. Holešky testnet (Goerli successor) first launch coordination call June 15, targeting September genesis https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/803

Attend some All Core Dev meetings if you have doubts https://github.com/ethereum/pm

EIP4844 readiness checklist: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/Breakout-Room/4844-readiness-checklist.md

Dencun upgrade with EIP4844 is likely later this year, which will bring lower cost Layer 2 transactions. Follow the readiness of EIP4844: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/Breakout-Room/4844-readiness-checklist.md Prague + E starname upgrade is probably 2024, possibly focused on EOF, then followed by a Verkle tree focused upgrade, but none of this has been decided.

There's an EIP 4844 readiness checklist.

The live date for the Shanghai upgrade is likely to be April 12, occurring at epoch number 620,9536. This was announced during the All Core Developers Execution Layer #157 call on 16 March 2023.

On December 8, 2022, the Ethereum core team held an All Core Developers (ACD) meeting. The Ethereum team agreed to target March 2023 as the release date for Shanghai’s mainnet launch. However, this is a tentative date based on the assumption that the Zhejiang, Sepolia, and Goerli testnets are successful.

Shanghai is the next major upgrade for the Ethereum network, following the Merge in September 2022. Key highlights of what to expect include:

Even more relevant would be the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repo (where people submit proposals to change the spec):

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs

Or the go-ethereum execution client (the most popular execution client):

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

It’s early in the life of the xERC20 standard, but progress is quickly being made. The standard has been audited and is already live with a few projects. The EIP to adopt the standard has been created, and implementation has begun. Alchemix recently announced support for the xERC20 standard. And Defi Wonderland has published a suggested implementation on their GitHub. This implementation has an interface for the xERC20 contract with eight core functions that the token issuer must implement. These are functions related to setting the Lockbox contract (setLockbox), issuance limits for bridges (setLimits, mintingMaxLimitOf, burningMaxLimitOf, etc.), and the core mint and burn functions.

Check out EIP-7517: Giving Consent for AI Data Mining on the Blockchain

ERC223 is not widely implemented, and there is some debate in the ERC discussion thread about backward compatibility and trade-offs between implementing changes at the contract interface level versus the user interface.

Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs): These are proposals to change various aspects of Ethereum. They often contain detailed technical discussion and can be a good resource for understanding the finer points of how Ethereum works. EIPs can be found here: https://eips.ethereum.org/

Worth looking at: EIP6968: Contract Secured Revenue on an EVM based L2 https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/6969/files

Additionally, I have made an EIP that can help standardise and maintain official contract registry of each DApp. This can help identify official contracts of a protocol vs scammers using fraud contracts but presenting like official protocol. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/6807