Ethereum Core developers have ruled out a Dencun upgrade this year

By Macauley Peterson, Blockworks; Compiled: Pine Snow, Golden Finance

Ethereum client developers confirmed on Thursday that the long-awaited Dencun upgrade will not be implemented before the end of 2023.

Last month, when the new Holešky testnet was successfully launched after its original schedule,** it was agreed that it was unlikely that the upgrade would be completed before the December holidays. **

When presented with optimistic scenarios on today’s Allcore developer call, anonymous Prysm developer Potuz commented: ** "We can’t fork the mainnet in 2023. ”**

He noted that over the past few months, there have been consistent consensus issues across the 10 developer networks (devnets) that have so far launched test upgrades, adding that “none of them are going well.”

Ethereum clients are divided into two main camps, one is the execution layer and the other is the consensus layer, the difference is reflected in the name of the upgrade - the consensus team uses the city where Ethereum’s main conference Devcon is held (e.g. Cancun), while the executive client developer chooses the star name (e.g. Deneb) – hence the “Dencun”.

In contrast to the consensus team, the executive layer client team reported good state for the upcoming testnet.

“We’re in a really good position, and a lot of stuff is on the Master right now,” says Geth developer named Lightclient, referring to an acronym for the Go Ethereum project’s digital workspace, which stores code, files, and revision history.

Devnet 10 launched this week and plans to have executing clients transition to the Goerli testnet for larger scale testing. But Prysm’s Potuz did not agree with this idea.

“I’m definitely not willing to do a full client-side fork on Goerli,” he said. Regarding Prysm, he adds, “I see that Prysm is still making big, deep changes,” which currently accounts for 45% of the consensus layer client share.

A smaller development network, Devnet 11, is planned, but it now appears that plans to move to the test network will be postponed until after Ethereum’s Devconnect developer conference, which will take place in Istanbul in mid-November.

Celebration of KZG Ceremony

Dencun upgrades require some sophisticated cryptography to ensure that the key features of Ethereum’s scalability improvements (i.e. Proto-Danksharding) remain secure.

The KZG ceremony involves multiple participants, each of whom writes a secret and performs a calculation, mixing it with the previous contributions. This process generates a “structured reference string” (SRS), which is essential for the cryptographic scheme promised by KZG and an important part of Proto-Danksharding.

The final result of this series of contributions was subsequently incorporated into the upgrade. As long as there is at least one honest participant in the ceremony, the entire setting remains safe. After months of solicitation, a total of 141,416 contributions were made, almost ensuring the safety of the ceremony.

Carl Beekhuizen of the Ethereum Foundation Coordination Ceremony invited participants to visit ceremony.ethereum.org to verify that their contributions were indeed included.

There, people can enter the wallet address of the contribution and get a monumental POAP NFT.

Source: Golden Finance