The 108th Ethereum core developer consensus meeting: Deneb upgrade will incorporate and test EIP-4788 and EIP-6987.

According to BlockBeats news on May 7th, Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the 108th Ethereum core developer consensus meeting. Developers agreed to consider testing EIP-4788 and EIP-6987 in Deneb. EIP-4788 will enable consensus layer state proofs on the execution layer for trustless verification through smart contracts. PR #3175 is currently being formatted into EIP-6987 for security reasons to prevent slashed validation nodes from being selected as block proposers. Developers discussed introducing an additional variable and constant in the Deneb specification to allow the execution layer to have greater flexibility to adjust the maximum blob transaction per block independently of the consensus layer. Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko reminded the consensus layer client team that the new SSZ type introduced by EIP-4844 is uncertain in terms of compatibility with the upcoming SSZ upgrade or optimization for the current RLP standard. The developers will continue to discuss this issue in next week's ACDE conference call. In addition, the renovation of the beacon chain proof subnet (attnet) was launched on May 4th. Developers also discussed PR #317 on the beacon chain API Github repository. Considering the recent MEV-Boost vulnerability attacks, relays now verify block content before broadcasting via gossip. This feature requires custom forks in Lighthouse and Prysm clients. Lighthouse client developer Michael Sproul proposed a standard query parameter to enable the same feature across all consensus layer clients. Prysm client developer Terence Tsao stated that introducing this feature in some ways would increase dependence on MEV-Boost, a temporary software used to earn MEV on Ethereum, and it should be deprecated to support PBS.