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Participants represent teams:

Erigon, Gateway, Nethermind, Geth, Gnosis DevOps, Gnosis Core Devs, Gnosis Comms team.

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June 12, 2024

Client Team Updates

EL

• Nethermind:

  • Released an RC with block processing improvements
  • Hired a new QA engineer
    • Talked with Lion about state testing GC (because Hive tests don’t cover that)
    • Could help to prepare those tests

• Erigon:

  • Was able to run Erigon v3 on Gnosis up to T-50k blocks
  • Running fine, but there might be some issues with block downloading towards the end (might also be a networking issue though)

• Geth:

  • Guillaume is sick

• Reth:

  • We want to bring reth to Gnosis (there’s also demand from CoW and other projects)
  • Reth is close to being considered stable
  • Reth is quite extensible, so it might be possible to implement support for Gnosis without having to maintain a fork
  • Will require a state snapshot from the merge, so we don’t have to implement AuRa, as this would be significantly more difficult
  • Reth doesn’t support snap sync yet

Chain Infra

• Gateway
  • Updated Erigon to the latest version

Testing

• Planning on forking https://github.com/ethereum/tests
  • Try to fork it with Nethermind as a generator without modifications
    • Should mostly be implemented by Nethermind but wasn’t battle tested
    • Maybe we should try generating tests for mainnet and compare them
  • Likely some tests will fail, and we can adapt them afterwards
• Is Erigon running POSDAO tests?
  • Geth for sure isn’t
• We shouldn’t necessarily assume that passing mainnet tests means that we also pass Gnosis tests, but it might not be reasonable to fork all tests either
  • We should adapt some tests at least
  • The question is where to draw the line

Research

• EIP-7002 (EL withdrawals)
  • On Ethereum the fee is burned, but we don’t want that on Gnosis Chain
  • Either we keep the same contract and burn the xDAI, or we do a different contract with a different address (which might be worse UX)
  • Burning it shouldn’t be too bad, but it’s not only a “chain revenue” decision, it’s also the fact that the xDAI burned will never be recoverable, which doesn’t really make sense

Innovation

• Shutter
  • All the signatures are now being verified
    • Keypers haven’t swapped over to blst yet, but they have test vectors that are working
  • Nethermind is feature complete
  • Debugging an issue where some transactions are not being included when there’s too many
  • Debugging high CPU usage
  • Code review is finished