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August 30, 2023

Client Team Updates

EL

• Nethermind:
  A new state layout is being worked on, which will optimize block processing significantly
  80% to 20% of the block processing time
  Will introduce snapshots with this update or soon after
  Will allow for snap sync for Gnosis Chain
  Might ship end of year, but no guarantee
  Geth has been working on something similar for 2 years and will be shipping soon

• Erigon:
  No updates

• Geth:
  Guillaume got pre-shapella and post-shapella states
  He’s going to implement the hard fork and see if he gets the right post-state after
  A Nethermind archive node was set up for Guillaume so he can trace and get states

CL

• Lighthouse
  Merged the Chiado config

Chain Infra

• Gateway
  No updates

Mainnet

Auto claim

Hive Tests

Fixed the last issue for Erigon
Related to warm coinbase
Working on merging dencun tests
Will likely break some tests, but that makes sense

Research

• Big block experiment
  We’re going to deliberately spam the network with big blocks to see if it causes issues
  Latency
  Slower slots / propagation
  Less attestations / falling behind

• History of Gnosis Chain, specifically regarding spamming and attacks
  Started by implementing AuRa in 2019 and then POSDAO
  Not much recollection of the different attacks
  It would be quite cheap to fill blocks, and having somewhat full blocks could cause a lot of nodes to struggle
  Right now we’re at 5-10% of block capacity
  It should still be in spec, be it for block producing or propagation
  Block production should stay under 150ms
  Might be a bit more expensive for node operators, but that makes sense
  Lion’s concern: we now have a very decentralized network, where users might not have sufficiently powerful systems or network connections. Could this introduce risks?
  Of course, some users with under specced systems could be left behind, but that shouldn’t be an issue
  For the cheap spamming issue, we had talks about increasing the minimum base fee
  We were quite against this though, as the costs should scale automatically based on needs

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