EIP-8037: apply the EIP-7976 calldata floor to block-level gas accounting
Merged. Its reproduction test measures the calldata floor budget under Amsterdam rules with `block_gas_limit = 2 * TX_MAX_GAS_LIMIT = 33,554,432`.
Gas accounting
Network and ecosystem
Barnabé: about 8,500 physical nodes in the validator network
03:52, citing a new study by alexneumueller; a 2024 paper by Brown and Bautista-Gomez recorded about 12,000 nodes, about 7,000 of them validator nodes.
Barnabé: $100 million did not bridge to Robinhood Chain because ETH is its gas token
21:40; making ETH the gas token is the most future-proof decision, but gas spent is trivial, and the real reason is that ETH is the money of Ethereum.
ERC-7303: add the IERC7303 introspection interface and agent delegation security considerations
(kofujimura), submitted and merged.
Community
Vitalik: AI 2040 and its detractors are locked into totally incompatible worldviews
12:08; zooko praised its epistemic humility and its list of defensive technologies, 21:26, including formal verification, cryptography and secure open hardware.
zooko praised its epistemic humility and its list of defensive technologies
Vitalik: AI 2040 and its detractors are locked into totally incompatible worldviews, 12:08; zooko praised its epistemic humility and its list of defensive technologies, 21:26, including formal verification, cryptography and secure open hardware.
gakonst: a new Centaur release can join external channels and accept untrusted input
07:05.