As we close out the year, and with 12 months since the last one (!), I’m overdue for another AllCoreDevs update. This post details the evolution and scope of the Pectra network upgrade. Expect a follow-up 🔜 covering what’s after Pectra, as well as ACD’s evolution over the past year! Pectra This time last year, we began seriously discussing the sco

As promised in my recent Pectra update, here’s a follow-up post covering this year’s changes to AllCoreDevs and what’s on the horizon for 2025 and beyond! ACD Process Improvements The first small but important process change of 2024 came with Reth publishing their team’s preferences for the Pectra hard fork. Other execution and consensus layer clie

Important caveats: This piece assumes context about Protocol Guild and narrowly focuses on its economic implications. For an introduction to PG, see Cheeky Gorilla’s EDCON talk. For a more philosophical read on its role, see Trent Van Epps’s article on Capital and Enclosure in Software Commons. A rough, quantitative framing of Protocol Guild’s mi

Welcome to another AllCoreDevs update 👋  Over the past six months or so, teams have been focused on Dencun, the next Ethereum upgrade, as well as some EIP process tweaks. This post covers both these topics, and briefly touches on planning for the upgrade. TL;DR 👀 Dencun testnets 🔜 The upgrade is in its final testing stages, with testnet upgr