pm VS execution-specs

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:

EIP6780 (SELFDESTRUCT only in same transaction) is planned for the Dencun upgrade. (See Cancun included EIPs https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs/blob/master/network-upgrades/mainnet-upgrades/cancun.md)

I followed the link which took me to https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs/blob/master/network-upgrades/mainnet-upgrades/shanghai.md and then I started getting a little lost on the details.

@ TimBeiko: teams felt comfortable moving forward with Goerli, which we agreed to fork on March 14, 10:25pm UTC. I've opened a PR to update the specs accordingly: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs/pull/724

Mar 01 08:37:30 computername geth[402568]: INFO [03-01|08:37:30.496] - Homestead: 1150000 (https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs/blob/master/network-upgrades/mainnet-upgrades/homestead.md)

EIP-4844 is slated for the Cancun Fork.

If you know Python you can read around the execution layer specs, namely for the EVM. Technically the "source of truth" for execution layer specs is still the yellow paper and EIPs but there's ongoing effort to turn it all into testable and executable specs. Otherwise this paper specifically goes in depth on the data structures used throughout the execution layer

You can see them here https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs/pull/633/files

EIP-4895 for staking withdrawals is the main proposal members cared about, and it was upgraded from "EIPs Considered for Inclusion" to "Included EIPs" in the latest Shanghai specs. The other 3 are just minor changes.

The following EIPs have now been upgraded from "EIPs Considered for Inclusion" to "Included EIPs" in the latest Shanghai specs.