173rd Ethereum ACDC Meeting: Glamsterdam Upgrade Scope May Not Match Schedule

PANews reported on January 23 that, according to Christine D. Kim's summary of the 173rd Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDC), developers reached a stark realization: in order to launch the Glamsterdam upgrade before mid-year, they may have to significantly scale it down. Currently, the developers have not explicitly acknowledged a significant mismatch between the planned scope of the Glamsterdam upgrade and the proposed timeline. They only acknowledged the possibility of such a problem and stated that if it does exist, they will resolve it by the end of February.

The meeting specifically discussed that if EIP 7732 cannot achieve an interoperable version by the end of February, it will be considered for removal from Glamsterdam and postponed to a future hard fork. In addition, the meeting also covered other developments: Consensys' Teku client team reported node performance issues discovered during mainnet stress testing, which are being fixed and have slowed their participation in Glamsterdam; EIP 7928 requires minor API change review by the consensus layer client; the deadline for submitting the Hegota upgrade Headliner EIP proposal is February 4th; and some client teams have completed initial work on library updates to support EIP-7688.