Ethereum Developers Gear Up for Deneb-Cancun Upgrade

• The developers behind Ethereum have also announced the next Deneb release for CL clients.
• Earlier this week, the Ethereum client Prysm announced the release of version 4.1.0.

Developers on the Ethereum network are hard at work getting ready for the Deneb-Cancun upgrade, and they’ve hinted that Devnet #10 will soon be released. This will be the last devnet before the upgrade is deployed to a public Ethereum testnets like Goerli.

According to the most recent Ethereum ACDE report, Ethereum Foundation’s DevOps engineer Barnabas Busa suggests patiently awaiting new software releases from client teams. When these are complete, Devnet #10, which will hopefully be the last, will be launched.

Major Modifications

The developers behind Ethereum have also announced the next Deneb release for CL clients, version 1.4.0-beta.3, which they are calling “the summoning.”

Known as “the summoning,” the latest version of the CL code specifications for the Cancun/Deneb (Dencun) upgrade is formally labelled as 1.4.0-beta.3 in the CL GitHub repository and introduces two major modifications.

Initially it will be the mainnet KZG configurations. The output from Ethereum’s trusted setup ceremony has been finalized and has been incorporated in the latest release of the CL spec after some final formatting task was required.

The second change is a new gossip rule that prevents CL nodes from sending more than the max allowed number of blobs per block, which is currently set to six blobs per block by the specs. This safeguards the network from validators flooding it with invalid messages larger than six blobs per block.

Earlier this week, the Ethereum client Prysm announced the release of version 4.1.0. This release lays the basis for Deneb support, but features like backward syncing and filesystem-based blob storage won’t arrive until the fourth quarter of 2024.

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