According to Odaily, Christine Kim, the Vice President of Research at Galaxy, has summarized the main content of the 136th ACDC teleconference. The meeting primarily focused on the collection of client diversity data and new research on multi-client block verification. Jorge Arce-Garro, a researcher at Nethermind, shared the latest achievements of his team, which aim to improve the way node operators report client diversity data.
The research, funded by EF, offers three different methods to facilitate the conveyance of client types by validator node operators. Each method was evaluated based on complexity, security, and the ability to protect the anonymity of node operators. Arce-Garro has requested feedback on his team's research, which has been published on Ethresearch.
Developers also shared the latest progress on the Pectra upgrade, mentioning that Pectra Devnet 1 is almost ready, with the EF Development Operations (DevOps) team waiting for the Execution Layer (EL) client to be prepared. Mikhail Kalinin, a developer at Teku, shared updates on the EIP 6110 specification. PeerDAS Devnet 1 has been launched, supporting the deployment of three different CL clients.
Discussions were also held about the work on SSZ code changes, with EIP 7688 and EIP 6493 underway. However, developers have not yet decided whether to include these two additional EIPs in Pectra.