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@potuz_eth

Potuz

4 months

ePBS has an EIP number! from now on I'll be referring to EIP-7732. Here is a short thread of some things that this EIP brings to Ethereum. The PR to make it to draft is here

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Add EIP: Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation by potuz · Pull Request #8711 · ethereum/EIPs

This EIP documents the necessary changes to separate the processing of an Ethereum block into a consensus and an execution part. It also implements an auction mechanism for a consensus proposer to ...

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

1 year

Yesterday close to 8pm UTC the Ethereum network lost finality for 25 minutes. Around that time, several valid, but untimely attestations were broadcast in the network. This typically happens when a node that is struggling to be synced, attests with an old view of the chain. 1/8

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8 months

Now that the fork is past, I wanted to describe a crazy scary bug in Prysm that got triggered in Goerli and highlights the importance of client diversity (surely worst bugs have gone unnoticed). 1/12

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Potuz

30 days

Today I sat in an ACD call in which increasing the blob target for Electra was discussed. I want to post on two topics of Ethereum governance that transpired during the call. Firstly: I'm all in to increasing the count to the maximum that is proven to be safe!

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Potuz

29 days

You got this backwards, solo stakers *are* the network.

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At some point we have to decide whether to build a network for the Users or for the Validators. It seems many have forgotten the mission. Solo stakers are a means to an end. When they cease to be useful to the network or start getting in the way, they should be eliminated.

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4 months

Today I sat lurking on an Arbitrum room while they were looking at batch posting going crazy. I happened to be lucky that friends from the geth team answered to my pleas for help. A short thread on why the gas market for blobs is broken 1/

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

9 months

mainnet is having lots of invalid blocks coming from the same builder. The relay should never broadcast blocks without verification. We should consider including ePBS in Electra. Please raise support for this to be discussed in ACD

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Consensus-layer Call 127 · Issue #951 · ethereum/pm

Consensus-layer Call 127 prev: call 126 Meeting Date/Time: Thursday 2024/2/8 at 14:00 UTC Meeting Duration: 1.5 hours Stream: https://youtube.com/live/FLB61CpMB70 Deneb testnets/testing/etc Mainnet...

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

1 year

Announcing ssz++ The fastest SSZ library out there. This is on a fresh full beacon state without caching ``` Deserialization: 27ms Hashing: 23ms ``` If you find something faster DM me

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GitHub - OffchainLabs/sszpp: C++ SSZ library

C++ SSZ library. Contribute to OffchainLabs/sszpp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

20 days

Deposited a validator. Can't stress how useful is. Doesn't matter how careful I am in crafting the tx, I feel at peace when I see the "valid" tick on the explorer. Thank you @Butta_eth and team

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

1 month

Prysm has posted its view on the incoming Pectra split. The document is short, here's a personal TL; DR;

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Prysm on Pectra split - HackMD

This is a short note to gather our team thoughts on the incoming Pectra fork splitting, future forks scoping and a retrospective on what went wrong in this fork planning.

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

3 months

I empathize with geth's stand on EOF as I know where they're coming from. Here's the perspective of someone that knows nothing about the EVM, but that understands the stress of consensus breaking bugs 1/11

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Potuz

10 months

1/7 Detecting censorship is crucial for Ethereum's evolution. Introducing simple heuristics can fortify the network against potential threats. Let's delve into these heuristics and their significance.

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Heuristics for Detecting Censorship - HackMD

As Ethereum has evolved in the post-merge era, we find ourselves in a mixed status between centralized and decentralized systems for block production and transaction inclusion. While the validator...

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Potuz

7 months

Another mainnet incident caused by centralization, another post-mortem. I wanted to leave here some thoughts on the topic. Yes, if you know me you can envision that they will irrevocably involve ePBS.

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

7 months

In the next Prysm release we have some big improvements coming! - Over 1 TB of disk storage reduction - 70% of less bandwidth consumption And the option for 90% of CPU reduction and extra MEV extraction. Our users asked and we delivered!

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Community requested feature flags by potuz · Pull Request #13841 · prysmaticlabs/prysm

Following up from internal Slack discussions. This PR implements several of the community requested feature flags. Adds a flag --optimistic-execution to allow the beacon node to run without an EL ...

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

25 days

I'll be speaking on DevCon about the status of EIP-7732 (ePBS). Most probably do a small technical tour of the design decisions, the current problems and the possible future interations.

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Join me @ Devcon 2024

Get your ticket for Devcon SEA Nov 12 — 15 in Bangkok, Thailand

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Potuz

9 months

Projects that are client diversity maxis should airdrop to wallets of solo stakers that were down during the Besu and @NethermindEth outages

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Potuz

1 year

Two days ago Goerli underwent an epoch long reorg. This is how it looked. A thread explaining it. TL;DR; this *will not* happen on mainnet. 1/8

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Potuz

4 months

Did we get the rollup roadmap wrong? In the current landscape, I'm quite bearish of based rollups, and I think L2 preconfirmations are vaporware (to put it nicely) But I do think that the based rollup vision is the right one, just a dream one. Here's a short thread as to why. 1/9

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Potuz

3 months

In your face spectests! This is EIP-7732 passing all existing forkchoice and validation tests. One more step up towards ePBS.

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Potuz

30 days

another. I even received DMs about this issue *before* the call happened. It is unacceptable to have back door conversations on issues that are transparent. We're all on the same team trying to find the best parameters that fit everyone involved. Ethereum is one of the most

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

1 month

That's the problem of relying on a promise of non-censoring, what has happened since Sept 8?

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Potuz

30 days

To end this thread: I believe blob count limit is not a matter of opinion so most of what I wrote above does not directly apply. Either clients can handle a long reorg/sync with higher target or they can't. But on most decisions, we need people to speak up!

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Potuz

5 months

It's amazing the work that @cheekygorilla0x , @trent_vanepps and @TimBeiko are putting into PG. We can't thank them enough. While we do give some time to brainstorm/curate the split, they are giving all and more to steer it.

@ProtocolGuild

Protocol Guild

5 months

Our docs just got their first overhaul since the Pilot! We hope this communicates the mechanism more clearly to anyone looking to learn more ↓ dive in ↓

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26 days

This, and more this, the 32 ETH are an unfortunate tech debt, but the very *only* reason L1 needs home stakers is that we don't know any other way to achieve censor resistance. Even with inclusion lists, if we lose the 10% or so home stakers it's hard to argue that we get CR

@dankrad

Dankrad Feist

26 days

@nickwh8te This is not true. We always wanted home stakers because of censorship resistance. What is true is that not supporting in protocol delegation and having a fixed deposit size was due to needing large committees for execution sharding. But this has nothing to do with home stakers.

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Potuz

2 months

Thinking on starting a "peer reviewed open source Blockchain research journal" I'm pretty sure we can get very good referees and a couple of good starting issues. Latex sources only, no prints. Question is how to get a good editorial board. Yay or Nay? 1/3

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Potuz

30 days

welcoming places in that if you have an opinion is not only heard but valued and taken into account. But if you never voice it up it will never be heard. This is particularly dangerous when there's economic incentives: people that have them may not care about voicing theirs!

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

3 months

So while I completely empathize and understand geth's position. It's great to see others taking responsibility for testing and checking, but it's also scary as hell, after all, Ethereum has chugged along for a decade relying on the stress of a few that set the bar on safety. /Fin

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

7 months

My regular push to remind the community that ePBS is both doable and a most needed bug fix. The full design notes for a proposed implementation is the Python spec PR is linked there. Call your local core dev and ask them to look into this.

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ePBS specification notes - HackMD

Fully detailed specification notes for a minimal implementation of ePBS

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Potuz

8 months

Ethereum is forking in little more than a day. Node ops need to upgrade both consensus and execution clients. Validators that use MEV boost need to upgrade it too!! The EF blog post doesn't mention this. Your CL should revert to local execution. But let's not tempt the devil.

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Potuz

6 months

Kudos to the geth team at @ethereum for the latest release CPU usage drop. Now I'm worried that we'll have to do our part as you can see @prylabs is using more than geth. Guess when I deployed the new version.

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Potuz

9 months

After yesterday's events, and already soothed, a thread on why we should not have allowed this to happen. 1/18

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Potuz

1 year

This stressed consensus clients in different ways to the point that they, specially those running on weaker hardware, started struggling to follow the chain. 2/8

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Potuz

29 days

I was asked to put out a concise high level list of benefits that ePBS brings to the world. Here it is - lower bandwidth and CPU requirement - less missed attestations - less reorgs - no trusted intermediaries

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The handwavy case for EIP 7732 - HackMD

Validators have 9 seconds to validate the blocks instead of 2

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Potuz

1 year

That is, if we know for a fact that such attestation is either from a struggling client (in which case is anyway useless to the network) or it is for a chain that we have not yet seen. We maintain safety since we will process these as soon as we see this chain. 8/8

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Potuz

7 months

This is very good! Wish we also had this form of centralization on Ethereum that would pay for this level of production 😁

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Superteam

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Go claim your W

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Potuz

30 days

I've already noticed that the division of opinions seemed to be mostly along the lines of client devs and researchers, I don't think this was a coincidence. We need more client devs involved in basic research and we need more researchers learning how our caches work and break

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Potuz

2 months

I may be naive but I haven't seen neither @TimBeiko nor @ralexstokes making a decision ever. With all the disagreement I have with both of them, they (together with @dannyryan ) deserve utmost respect for this. They do cut discussions short when they aren't advancing, that's all

@christine_dkim

Christine Kim

@christine_dkim

2 months

the role of acd call chairs is an important one in the ethereum governance process. when there isn't a clear consensus among call participants, chairs usually make a decision for the group. these decisions are rarely refuted but they can be contentious.

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Potuz

3 months

@peter_szilagyi A last question you didn't mention is even if you can produce a block: which transaction will you include? I don't like any of the answers I've gotten from research regarding this. The public mempool is really dying and imo we aren't doing much to save it

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Potuz

2 years

Have been replying this for the last few days so better put in a single place.

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Validator withdrawals: when to submit? - HackMD

# Validator withdrawals: when to submit? This very short and direct note comes (as many others) fro

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Potuz

2 months

@lightclients 1) it bugs me that they keep appealing to stakers to take action when they are irrelevant. Surely stakers can afford and often have overpowered hardware. 2) even in the US, I think this shows that Max is not a homestaker. Uploading bandwidth is a bottleneck everywhere since 4844

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Potuz

9 months

I see a lot of fuzz about client diversity and I feel compelled to produce a dissenting voice. There are many reasons why I think we are being naive and disingenuous in this topic. 1/8

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Potuz

2 years

I was hesitant at the merge, but I'm glad we went with MeV-Boost. What we are learning these days will strengthen our design of PBS. At the same time had a bug like this happened on protocol level PBS it would've been a tragedy

@bertcmiller

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2 years

A post mortem on the mev-boost relay vulnerability yesterday and a brief discussion on a related timing issue:

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

9 months

First off, holding a campaign to shame geth home stakers an "inform" them on the penalties they could incur if geth happens to have a bug is a stupid allocation of resources: getting the three top pools to change would solve client diversity completely 2/8

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Potuz

1 year

Performing several of these replays at the same time is what stresses the nodes' CPUs and bloats memory usage. In Prysm, we have a cache of seen attestation targets that was designed to address this specific situation. 4/8

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Potuz

7 months

This misses an important point. Decentralization of L2 is very different than for L1. For ORUs the trust assumption is 1 of N and not 2/3rds. It's absolutely fine to require higher end hardware for validators of L2s. Decentralization is more relevant to liveness and MeV protectn

@EthereumOnARM

Ethereum on ARM (and RISC-V) 🦇🔊🐼👉👈🐼

7 months

Totally disagree. An L2 that cannot be run on commodity hardware isn't decentralized enough. Why should we be using a chain that depends on a cluster of nodes that controls it. If you want performance, you can use many services such as Google or AWS. Decentralization matters.

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Potuz

1 year

When we receive an attestation for an old target, we often times need to regenerate the beacon state at that time in order to validate the attestation (eg. if the signing validator was supposed to attest at that precise slot for example). 3/8

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Potuz

4 months

You know @l2beat made a good product when people started asking everywhere for the L2 beat version of anything.

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Potuz

8 months

I just claimed the @Starknet airdrop. Kudos to the team, I know that airdroping is a tense and exhilarating time. You got something completely right: the experience of claiming was transparent and trivial to follow from start to end. No crazy bugged wallets, no weird RPCs, etc.

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Potuz

1 year

With the increase in validator sizes and the number of these untimely attestations, specially during this event, this cache quickly filled and forced us to replay several times the same state. 5/8

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Potuz

7 months

And as I expected, this "little fork" may have been the tip of the glass for my ISP. Will try to hold to it, but it's already affecting internet at home, so my days of home staking may be coming to an end.

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Potuz

5 months

Yesterday we had an exciting session with flashbots on ePBS. Today we had a breakout session with core devs. @hasufl raised a question that surprised me and a few in the audience. @terencechain noticed an omission on my part. It's been a learning experience. However, 1/2

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Potuz

23 days

@VitalikButerin @0xQuintus @post_polar_ @TheDevanshMehta @sassal0x I don't agree with this take. We have solutions, while not optimal, for DVTs or even rocketpool minipools. But we have no solution to the barrier that high bandwidth constrains poses on most of the world

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Potuz

1 year

Whenever we receive many such attestations, we will simply ignore them if the target of the attestation is known to be old and not have been a checkpoint in any chain known to our node. 7/8

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Potuz

30 days

The second point is about speaking up! Today @VitalikButerin showed up supporting the increase. He's rarely wrong on anything so as such I understand that no one would want to contradict him nor be on the other side of the discussion. There were some core devs that raised

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Potuz

30 days

concerns, some that genuinely didn't have a position either way. But what I don't find as acceptable is those that did have a position and did not voice it up either way. I received numerous DMs after the call from people that are somewhat related with home stakers one way or

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

5 months

Yes, ePBS also makes block processing much more effective. It turns out that instead of 2 seconds to validate a block, attesters will now have about 9 seconds! If you've been missing attestations due to this, call your local core dev.

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An alternative to trailing state root - HackMD

One of the proposals to take away the state root computation of the execution payload from the hot path (attesters need to compute the state root to validate the block before the attesting deadline)...

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Potuz

4 months

We need to figure out a way so that rollups can actually bid in an open market so that having special personal deals with builders is an option, not a forced situation. I find myself fighting for this on all fronts: ePBS is so that trusted building is an option, not forced.

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Potuz

1 year

Instead of simply increasing the cache, something that would impact memory usage of all users, we decided to release a fix that will strengthen Prysm in the case of such events. 6/8

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Potuz

5 months

@gakonst @peter_szilagyi I second this, if anything, one of the biggest problems we have now in Ethereum governance is that people *do not* speak their mind when they want to.

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3 months

@peter_szilagyi I tend to agree with you, but I also think the situation is not that bad in many (not all) aspects. 1) yes, forget about a usual laptop holding the full state, but a small RPI will be able to prove it and even attest. 2) consumer hardware should still be able to ...

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Potuz

10 months

Solana might always be cheaper than L2s. And so are databases, traditional finance, transacting in cash, or plain old barter. And no, I haven't abandoned Ethereum. Simply ackowledging a trade-off we accepted in order to have a truly decentralized and secure Blockchain.

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10 months

Solana will still be significantly cheaper to use than L2s even in a 4844 world, by orders of magnitude, likely for the next year or two Yes I have abandoned Ethereum despite supporting it in the past

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Potuz

3 months

@arixoneth Ethereum should not price resources in order to accrue value. Ethereum prices resources in order to not be Dosed. We will always have the minimum price that nodes can handle on the target hardware

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Potuz

7 months

If you made it to this point in the thread either you are a core dev or you are already in touch with one. For the former, I urge you once again: ePBS is not a wanted feature, it is a bug fix! We need it in Bellatrix, not Dencun, not Electra. Look into

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minimal ePBS with forward inclusion lists and PTC by potuz · Pull Request #1 · potuz/consensus-specs

Eventually this PR will become a full ePBS implementation. Main ingredients are In protocol staked builders. All Max EB changes from this PR including execution layer trigerable exits. Forced incl...

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Potuz

1 year

In the next Prysm release (due today/tomorrow) there are some changes to our aggregation scheme. They come with some strong improvements and I wanted to document some hidden flags for power users.

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Changes in the aggregation scheme in Prysm - HackMD

# Changes in the aggregation scheme in Prysm In the following release of Prysm (v 4.0.5 due early t

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

1 year

Until we get a proper ePBS channel in the R&D discord (social pressure for @timbeiko ), and since I am being pinged by DMs by very different teams, I'll slowly post here some personal views in what I think are misleading takes.

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Potuz

4 months

What are preconfs? User sends a tx to the preconfer, gets a receipt in 100ms. Acts on it. Tx lands in this slot. Slightly late. Next block proposer is a self building home staker. Reorgs the block. Why is 90% of my Twitter feed even talking about this?

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3 months

The fallacy here is that "L2s are secured by a single sequencer". They are not.

@toghrulmaharram

Toghrul Maharramov 🇺🇦

@toghrulmaharram

3 months

Can we stop with the whole "L2 UX is as good as Solana" cope? Cool, the UX might feel similar, but all the major L2s are secured by a single sequencer and Solana is secured by a network of 1,000+ validators with 70B$+ staked. Yeah, L2s will eventually decentralize and have

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6 months

Completely disagree: the only reason I'm here is selfishness (bought some ETH thinking it would give me a good return). The only projects I work on are long term health improvements for L1. Like me, many are first here by greed and stay by falling in love with the protocol.

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raghav

6 months

Having talked to a number of founders and CEOs recently, interesting that it’s universally agreed upon the worst people to hire are crypto natives, and the best being people from outside who built an active (healthy) interest and respect for the space. I think when you’re

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Typing this as I hang during ACD today and I feel the stress in @TimBeiko 's voice while moderating the 3074 discussion. I'm perfect to write this since I do not know much about 3074 and all its dangers. 1/many

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26 days

I'll take a stab at this Evan 😆. ETH does not compete with BTC. ETH does not need potential buyers of BTC to move to ETH. ETH does not need BTC holders to move to ETH. ETH simply needs good apps and users.

@evan_van_ness

Evan Van Ness 🧉

26 days

ETH's only competition is Btc And everyone's favorite orange memecoin is stagnant and inexorably centralizing

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1 month

More on the nerdish side, I wrote this note because I love to bounce ideas with @mkalinin2 and @EthDreamer has been bugging about an API change for ePBS. I think we could completely decouple EL and CL syncing. Are EL devs game for this? More on R&D discord

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Ethereum Syncing - HackMD

Currently Ethereum blocks are gossiped on the consensus layer (CL) peer to peer network. These blocks are encoded as objects of the type SignedBeaconBlock. Within them, we find an ExecutionPayload....

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Potuz

8 months

I proposed a block today, the first post Deneb day. But I just found out and it's midnight. Not sure if I want to risk waking my wife to tell her about this one 😂

@benjaminion_xyz

Ben Edgington

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8 months

Even after three years as a staker, publishing a block from home still gives me a little frisson of joy (and an announcement to the family 😂). Not for me the joyless LST!

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30 days

For those that want to increase the blob count: we're hiring moderators for the @prylabs Discord server, looks to me that @Teku_Consensys may have some openings as well 😝

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8 months

The TL; DR; of this thread is this: people kept pushing for geth to be below 66% because it could cause a mass slashing. The bug I'll describe shows how 33% on the consensus layer is already horrible enough. 2/12

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9 months

But please stop shaming small home stakers, I myself run @prylabs + geth at home and I'm not ashamed of it, those are the clients that I know best and can hack their code with more ease. 6/8

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8 months

A short document outlining some perks that come for free as side-products of ePBS. @vdWijden A version of them allows for same-slot ILs for example. @barnabemonnot , slot auctions, execution tickets and PEPC are all compatible and easier to implement.

Beyond the Basics: The Unanticipated Advantages of ePBS - HackMD

We explore a range of lesser-known benefits associated with ePBS

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Potuz

10 months

This is a rather dumb exaggeration. While @VitalikButerin may have given one of the few valid technical arguments for a raise (essentially time and Moore's law), most of the people with actual technical knowledge of the matter advocate for measurement. This isn't "solved"

@0xBalloonLover

venture altruist

@0xBalloonLover

10 months

for all the talk about ethereum's decision-making being decentralized it is comical how a highly contentious debate (raising the gas limit) is immediately resolved by a single comment from the Grand Wizard of the Ethereum Foundation

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@potuz_eth

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I don't think there's any real war at all, we're only arguing on *when* to increase the blob count, not *if*. Some believe that there's sufficient data to know it's safe to do so now, others want to see more measurements or wait until P2P improvements or better pipelining arrive

@gregthegreek

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29 days

I’ve been saying this for a while, but we’re in a very dangerous time with respects to what we want in terms of performance vs what we want in terms of values The civil war over Ethereum scalability is brewing

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

2 years

Wrote something for a colleague that was struggling to find out if his validating node was working well. Ended up extending myself a bit, numbers are slightly off (Capella attracted more staked ETH) but some people may find this illuminating. @tsahidoteth

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Validator Performance Tracking

Tl; dr: We explain in detail the different components that make up an Ethereum validator’s reward. We describe common situations that make…

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

25 days

There's one feature of @peter_szilagyi version of inclusion list that is undervalued: to bypass it, offenders need to run forks of clients for attestations. This is way harder to do than adding middleware to sell inclusion in the IL. TIL that 98% of validators run MEV boost.

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

7 months

This is precisely the time no not have these penalties. This is not happening because of any reckless nor intentional behavior of validators.

@MaxResnick1

Max Resnick

7 months

time for missed slot penalties is now

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

6 months

If you are following the ePBS push from some of us, you may be interested in the forkchoice annotated spec . It is a rather technical and complicated document, but I am pretty excited and proud about it. I'm certain it has mistakes, but it is converging.

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ePBS Forkchoice annotated spec - HackMD

This document deals with the technical specification of forkchoice for ePBS. For a more high level description of it we recommend the reader to look into the design notes.

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Potuz

4 months

Tomorrow there's another breakout call on ePBS. It's supposed to be short hopefully just talk about the (lack of) progress in the last couple of weeks. Please if you are a CL team, send someone @sigp_io @Teku_Consensys @lodestar_eth @ethnimbus

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ePBS Breakout room #3 · Issue #1067 · ethereum/pm

June 21 (Fri), 2024 , 14:00 UTC 🕑 ❗ Duration: 60 minutes Zoom link Agenda EIP Status Advantages/Disadvantages for builders/proposers to not use the in-protocol auction.

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

3 months

A short thread to peer-pressure data scientists to estimate a number. Today home stakers compare their local block value against the builder's and decide which block to include. I claim that slot auctions make this considerably worse for local building cc @Data_Always

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

8 months

I am a triple recipient from this airdrop (most core devs are) as part of PG, a GitHub dev and a home staker. From the point of view of giving value back to people that contributed I'm very thankful for it indeed. 1/

@arixoneth

arixon.eth

8 months

I see a lot of people complaining about the starknet airdrop: validators, users, devs not being included And yeah the team could have done things differently but you can't make everyone happy Imo the best thing to do now is to learn from these mistakes and do it better for the

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

25 days

My take on this issue: I believe if the data that @nero_eth produced is valid when discriminating home stakers, that shows that reorgs and bandwidth on normal operations are *not* a problem and are just anecdotal situations 1/3

@nixorokish

nixo.eth 🦇🔊

25 days

The solo staking / blob increase issue happening right now seems to be two different conversations: 1. Low upload speeds and low-quality modem/router hardware degrading the quality of life of solo stakers 2. Solo stakers are the most likely parties to be building locally on

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

3 months

Remember we're hiring at @prylabs !

@preston_vanloon

prestonvanloon.eth

@preston_vanloon

3 months

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. Shipping ETH2

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

6 months

Early onset Alzheimer? Aging? I've been feeling increasingly less functional and outright forgetful. I rationalize it as my brain saying "I had to make space for crypto so I'll remove these big chunks of prior knowledge". But I find myself looking for words more often. Anyone?

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

7 months

Lets enforce a non zero default at the client level @sproulM_ @tbenr @philngo_ @jcksie @prylabs

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Enforce a non zero min bid by default · Issue #13793 · prysmaticlabs/prysm

Bringing the discussion from https://hackmd.io/@dataalways/resilience here, we should default to a non zero min bid from builders that we enforce within prysm without relying on MEV boost.

@Data_Always

dataalways.eth ⚡️🤖

7 months

Took some time to look at the footprints left in MEV data by min-bid usage, and to talk about how sanctioned transactions make it into blocks.

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Potuz

7 months

This sounds like a cool goal. However, L1 guarantees 32 768 B/s in blob data, and at the same compression ratios of Arbitrum, that bottlenecks at 75M gas/s. So even assuming that base can be twice as effective as Arbitrum and is the only rollup in the world, it'll bottleneck.

@jessepollak

jesse.base.eth

7 months

we aligned internally today that our medium term scaling goal is to target 1 Ggas/s on @base our current target is 2.5 mgas/s, so ~400x, with a long term goal of pushing even further past >1000x it's pronounced "gigagas" and this is our broadband moment

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

11 days

Open Twitter Read my feed See a bunch of Northern hemisphere complain about some VCs and their problems. Feel great that we don't have a North Star

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

8 months

And pool operators are being constantly tricked by builders that include withdrawals in the block value thus invalidating any minimal bid to fall back to local execution. This behavior should be immediately banned by clients under ePBS. Can't stress enough how urgent it is.

@drjasper_eth

jasperthefriendlyghost.eth

8 months

This was 10 withdrawals - not a massive block

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

6 months

I feel empathy for Tim's stress. While I don't understand the merits of either 3074 nor the concerns of the people that are currently complaining, we need some form of stability in the code freeze procedure and at this stage I would expect **only** strong security concerns

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

1 month

The @arbitrum security council election is up for voting. I can't vote myself but I can endorse @sigp_io . It's hard to find better candidates for a security council than one of the most serious firms in the space. I'm grateful to @AgeManning @paulhauner @ethzed for being there.

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

9 months

There are many reasons that make geth a great client. It is battle tested, if you want to price an opcode @mhswende runs the benchmarks, if you have a question about the P2P stack, Felix Lange designed it, your client has a bug? Marius will be on the call... 3/8

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Potuz

7 months

@GwartyGwart What is this? several months of liking your content so that it appears regularly on my feed and now you come with serious philosophy? this is the xz backdoor all over again!

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

3 months

This creates the asymmetry: for a long time minority clients only needed to implement code, they did so after geth had at least a POC. Geth was in charge of testing, coordinating, fuzzing, gas pricing, attacking, etc. This started to change 2 years ago with EF DevOps but... 4/11

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

4 months

This would typically get dismissed as a specialized issue but actually highlights a situation that is toxic: the current gas market benefits no one and actually everyone should be unhappy 3/

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

9 months

We had what I consider a fruitful meeting. We seemed to have agreed on fundamental flaws that the current design has and in some requirements that ePBS should satisfy to move forward. I *think* once we have agreed on a set of pts. we are in a path to solving those problems.

@terencechain

terence

9 months

The first ePBS break-out call just ended! Some notes: 🧵

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@potuz_eth

Potuz

9 months

If you're running a single validator on a Windows machine with a command window open since genesis cause you don't know how to set up a process in the background, you probably don't want to risk setting up a different client. 8/8

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