Ethereum Cat Herders Podcast

Meet the Herders is a new series where we talk to the people who make the Ethereum Cat Herders work.

Meet the Herders is a series of interviews with members of Ethereum Cat Herders (ECH).In this episode we speak to Pooja Ranjan who is the Herder-In-Chief. We discuss the history, motivations , workings of ECH & much more.

Today we're going to be talking to Octant. Octant is a decentralized governance platform that awards participation with ETH. It is a project by the Golem Foundation and Octant's mission is to streamline the funding for public goods and to ensure they receive the support that they deserve. Octant is doing this by taking a portion of their staking rewards and using that to distribute to the community, who can give it to public goods projects. We're here with James and we're going to be learning about their app today.

What can you expect from the Merge? What are the challenges and opportunities presented to smaller client developers? What impact will new technologies like Bonsai and Snapsync have for client operators? Learn about all this and more in this Merge special episode of PEEPanEIP.

Do blockchains help with privacy or hinder it? Why do we need transactional privacy? Roman Semenov, creator and builder at Tornado Cash joins us to discuss privacy on blockchains and how Tornado strives to improve it. We also discuss the differences between the original version of Tornado and Nova, the new version of Tornado which is rolling out now.

One of the pillars of the ideology around web3 is that of decentralization. Are we delivering on our promises to create decentralized ledgers, or are we falling into the same snares that gave us the highly centralized internet we see around us? Kristy Leigh Minehan, noted consultant and blockchain hardware specialist joins the podcast to talk about decentralization from a number of different potential centralization vectors.

What could be hard about building a crypto wallet? Taylor Monahan, founder of MyCryto (recently acquired by ConsenSys) and currently at MetaMask, joins the podcast to discuss the intricacies of wallets, the challenges in presenting something decentralized and yet user-friendly to a spectrum of users, and more.

We've all heard of DAOs, but what are they practically? How can you contribute to one if you wanted to? What different challenges do DAOs and those contributing to them face? Chase Chapman, a DAO researcher and contributor joins the podcast to talk about all things DAOs.

Running nodes on the Ethereum network (and other blockchain networks) can be hard. The client software can update frequently and be hard to work with. In addition, they need monitoring and maintenance. The data provided as specified can be difficult to work with too. Yet, nodes are necessary to connect applications with the blockchain. The difficulties and need have led to the rise of providers running nodes as a service and providing an API for app builders to use to connect their application to the blockchain. Alchemy is one such provider. Deric Chang and Omar Ceja of Alchemy join to discuss running node infrastructure at scale, and providing useful data to users.

Building apps that aggregate blockchain data opens up new paradigms in application development. Lefteris Karapetsas, a longtime contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, joins the podcast to discuss his current project, Rotki, a crypto asset accounting app. We discuss the difficulties of obtaining event data from nodes, the benefits and challenges of developing in the open, and more.

Smart Contracts can hold immense amounts of value in an ecosystem that makes them accessible to anyone. As a result, exploits in smart contracts can have catastrophic results. samczsun, a researcher at Paradigm and famous white-hat hacker, joins us to talk about finding vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Among the topics, we talk about his preferred setup for analyzing contracts, how he picks what to look at, and how he goes about looking at code once he's picked something. We also talk about anonymity in the space and his work at Paradigm and previous.

Nethermind is an execution client for EVM-compatible blockchains. Tomasz Stańczak discusses what motivated him to begin working on creating a new execution client and the specific challenges (and joys) of building and maintaining one. We also discuss some of Nethermind's specific features as a client, and future directions for both the larger Nethermind company and the client specifically.

Smart contracts have opened up new opportunities, and we are still exploring what we are able to build with them. Andre Cronje is the creator of Yearn Finance, Keep3r, and more, and joins us in this episode to talk about building innovative platforms with smart contracts, and the various pressures that can come from being a recognized builder in the space.

Gitcoin has been building tools that enable communities to build, fund and protect what matters to them. Topics Covered: ------------------------- 01:33 - Sov Introduction 05:10 - Presentation 05:11 - Gitcoin Journey 08:27 - Past 5 Years Funding by Gitcoin in Numbers 09:08 - Gitcoin 2.0 Stack 10:55 - Today's Mechanisms in Gitcoin 14:58 - OSS: Funding 16:40 - Gitcoin Today and Gitcoin Future 17:50 - Grants Programs - Demo 25:36 - Retro Funding 27:28 - Presentation End 28:07 - Grants Lab and its uses 30:08 - What is other thing if not Passport? 33:26 - Is there any room in future for this kind of projects? 37:15 - Sov thoughts on Gitcoin 2.0 for more sustainable 39:51 - Sov tip and trick to developer, who is engage on their project through Gitcoin 41:24 - Success story funded through Gitcoin 44:55 - Final Thought by Sov 47:27 - Closing Words Follow at Twitter: -------------------------- Sov:   / sovereignsignal   Pooja Ranjan:   / poojaranjan19   Other resources: --------------------------    • Meet The Herders     • Ecosystem Project Demo     • NFT     • Non-EIP PEEPanEIP     • Community     • PEEPanEIP   Official Website: -------------------------- Gitcoin : https://www.gitcoin.co/ Ethereum Cat Herders: https://www.ethereumcatherders.com/ -------------------------- #ethereum #gitcoin #funding

Execution Layer Meeting 197 · Issue #1153 · ethereum/pm (github.com)

Consensus-layer Call 142 · Issue #1154 · ethereum/pm (github.com)

Execution Layer Meeting 196 · Issue #1143 · ethereum/pm (github.com)

Pectra Devnet is Prague-Electra Network Upgrade Resources: ----------------- Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zGLXgYWbV1LQ-8rTDmaiSd534Lz2EOaT/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110450674004865651218&rtpof=true&sd=true EEST Specs: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-spec-tests/ Earlier talks on PEEPanEIP related to Pectra EIPs: ----------------- EIP-2537: https://youtu.be/Kr0WRewb_AA EIP-2935: https://youtu.be/QH5yuNd3B6o EIP-6110: https://youtu.be/tRTBgCN9VgY EIP-7002: https://youtu.be/MxvX1gNh-_4 EIP-7251: https://youtu.be/3cVhNXDTjgg EIP-7685: https://youtu.be/3g71BGZFASE EIP-7251: https://youtu.be/3cVhNXDTjgg ----------------- Other Resources: https://youtu.be/GriLSj37RdI https://youtu.be/SfDC_qUZaos https://youtu.be/CcL9RJBljUs https://youtu.be/-xY1EEzcp0s https://youtu.be/KdhHJa2SEwY Check out upcoming EIPs in Peep an EIP series at https://github.com/ethereum-cat-herders/PM/projects/2 PEEPanEIP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F Follow at Twitter: -------------------------- Parithosh - https://twitter.com/parithosh_j Mario Vega - https://twitter.com/elbuenmayini Pooja Ranjan - https://twitter.com/poojaranjan19 Topics covered: ------------------------- 00:12 - Starting Words 00:29 - Intro 01:27 - Parithosh Self Introduction 02:01 - Mario Vega Introduction 03:02 - Presentation Start 03:20 - Disclaimers related to the presentation by Parithosh 04:50 - Presentation by Mario 05:40 - EVM Prague Updates 09:26 - EVM Tests - EIP-2537: BLS Precompiles 11:11 - EVM Tests - EIP-2935: Historical Block Hashes from State 13:23 - EVM Tests - EIP-6110, EIP-7002, EIP-7251, EIP-7685: Execution Layer Requests 18:01 - EVM Tests - EIP-7702: Authorization Lists 21:13 - Want to Test EIP-7702? (Slide contain useful links and QRs) 22:07 - EVM Tests - EIP-7692: EOF Version 1 24:56 - Presentation by Parithosh 25:00 - CL Prague Updates 27:46 - Assertor - EIP-7251: MaxEB 31:07 - Hermes/Xatu- EIP-7594: PeerDAS 35:36 - Kurtosis 35:50 - What is Kurtosis? and why do we care? 38:08 - What is Assertor 41:31 - What's going to happen next? 44:44 - Need of Idea for next public testnet! 45:07 - Presentation End 46:21 - Q&A 46:27 - How many active Devnet/Testnet, as on date? 47:40 - Do we see more versions of Devnet? and how many? 51:10 - Do you think, we could have kept PeerDAS separate and deploy async in each client? 53:09 - What are the specific risk and challenge to include EIPs? 58:07 - How would we evaluate a success of Pectra Devnet Testing? 01:00:27 - How long would it take, to get Pectra on the mainnet? 01:03:08 - Shout out by Mario 01:04:35 - Closing Words ------------------------- #Pectra #ethereum #crypto #PectraDevnet

Consensus-layer Call 141 · Issue #1140 · ethereum/pm (github.com)

EIP-7732: Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation is Separates the Ethereum block in consensus and execution parts, adds a mechanism for the consensus proposer to choose the execution proposer. Resources: ----------------- Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-NMq36QRiCzBYK5inDiV6HQI9z2BQlGuDgUjSMwtwn4/edit#slide=id.p EIP - https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7732 Discussion - https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-7732-enshrined-proposer-builder-separation-epbs/19634 https://hackmd.io/@potuz/rJ9GCnT1C https://ethresear.ch/t/a-note-on-equivocation-in-slot-auction-epbs/20331/6 https://ethresear.ch/t/the-role-of-the-p2p-market-in-epbs/20330 https://www.notion.so/efdn/ePBS-EIP-7732-tracker-9f85f7b086994bd79192bc72bae703a1 Earlier talks on Inclusion List: ----------------- https://youtu.be/oRjG0RMnK5U ----------------- Other Resources: https://youtu.be/GriLSj37RdI https://youtu.be/SfDC_qUZaos https://youtu.be/CcL9RJBljUs https://youtu.be/-xY1EEzcp0s https://youtu.be/KdhHJa2SEwY Check out upcoming EIPs in Peep an EIP series at https://github.com/ethereum-cat-herders/PM/projects/2 PEEPanEIP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F Follow at Twitter: -------------------------- Potuz - https://twitter.com/potuz_eth terence - https://twitter.com/terencechain Pooja Ranjan - https://twitter.com/poojaranjan19 Topics covered: ------------------------- 00:22 - Intro 00:46 - EIP 7732 intro 01:54 - terence's introduction 02:20 - Potuz's introduction 03:25 - Presentation Start 03:27 - what is EIP 7732 by terence 04:10 - Disclaimer 05:12 - Key Changes 10:39 - Specifications Changes 11:24 - Beacon Chain Changes (Containers) 15:43 - Beacon Chain Changes (State Transition Function) 16:54 - Validator Changes (New PTC Duty) 18:43 - Validator Changes (Solo proposer) 19:36 - Validator Changes (Proposer using builders) 20:41 - P2P Changes 21:53 - Fork choice changes 24:22 - Fork choice handler changes 25:15 - Fork choice get a new head 26:32 - Miscellaneous 29:40 - Call to help 30:58 - Presentation End 31:59 - Why PBS was originally proposed, and how ePBS is similar or different from the PBS? 42:04 - One or two technical challenges or open questions that may lead to the specs change and where on we on that? 45:20 - How Ethereum Community responded to EIP 7732 so far? 49:48 - How many clients have already implemented? 51:35 - What are the challenges for 7732 to be accepted for an upgrade? 54:47 - What are the speculations on DevNet for ePBS, and how far it been implemented? 56:03 - Message to Community 56:17 - Closing Words ------------------------- #7732 #ethereum #eip #crypto