PANews reported on March 29 that Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko summarized this week's Ethereum execution layer core developer meeting (ACDE) on the X platform, this meeting first discussed the increase in missing slots on the network in recent days, blocks with missing blobs were propagated, and after checking the vulnerabilities of all clients, 99% of the blocks with this problem were sent by the repeater bloxroute, and the team is investigating the problem. There have been some comments/issues with the mev-boost circuit breaker, if the client sees more than 5 missing slots in a row, they will return to the local chunk build. Since the missed slot doesn't happen consecutively, it's not triggered here. After some discussion, the developers agreed not to increase the sensitivity of the circuit breaker (which could be an attack vector), but to consider a more granular auto-disconnect mechanism for repeaters.
In addition, the meeting talked about the historical growth of Ethereum's state, saying that due to the emergence of various cross-chain bridges, the growth of historical data far exceeds the growth of state. Dencun has helped with this (bridging historical data growth by 50% and overall by 33%), but the overall rate of historical growth is still about 10 times the rate of state growth. While the problem with state growth is not just the size of the state itself, but the state of access, these numbers once again emphasize the importance of focusing on historical data. The developers agreed that research on EIP-4444 should continue, with the ideal goal of stopping providing pre-merge history on Ethereum's p2p layer around next year.
The meeting went on to discuss two "retroactive EIPs", EIP-7610 and EIP-7523. Among them, EIP-7610 proposes to create an explicit implicit constraint for the contract, which can simplify part of the client's codebase, and remove some test cases that only exist in the edge cases that cover theory, and EIP-7523 proposes to prohibit empty accounts for potential denial-of-service DOS attacks.
The session also continued the discussion of the Pectra upgrade, with developers sharing some of the benchmarks they did on EIP-2537 to determine the correct gas cost. The Reth team says they also run benchmarks to determine the correct gas cost. The developers have updated some potential issues with the inclusion list in the context of the account abstraction, which is pending for the time being. In addition, about 10 EIP champions lined up to share updates/justifications for their proposals, including EIP-5920, EIP-7609, EIP-2935, EIP-7545, EIP-7212, EIP-7664, EIP-6493, and more.