HackMDETH1x Roadmap
ETHCC 2019
Note:
These slides were first presented at ETHCC, March 7th, 2019. See the related discussion thread on EthMagicians for further discussion.
What is the ETH1x Roadmap?
Guiding question for this conversation. Ask questions, share resources, have a discussion.
- Why is this so important?
- Why now? Why not earlier, or later?
- How does it tie into Eth2? / Fit into the overall roadmap
- Who is responsible for it?
What are the upcoming hardforks?
Istanbul this year, October 2019
6 or 9 Month Hardforks?
| Frequency | I+1 | I+2 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Months | April 2020 | October 2020 |
| 9 Months | July 2020 | April 2021 |
Istanbul Hardfork Timeline
- May 17th - hard deadline to accept proposals
- July 19th - soft deadline for major client implementations
- August 14th - projected date for testnet network upgrade (Ropsten, Görli, or ad-hoc testnet)
- October 16th - projected date for mainnet upgrade
See https://en.ethereum.wiki/roadmap/istanbul
Istanbul Hardfork Process
EIP 233 describes the formal process - @bmann & @axic to propose some updates.
EIP 1679 is the Istanbul hardfork Meta EIP.
Propose EIPs, get them to Last Call, implementations in at least 2 major clients, bring to CoreDevs to move to Accepted.
Feb 6th Webinar
Held a webinar with State Fee & eWASM discussion on Feb 6th. Notes & video on EthMagicians.
State Fees
Alexey @realledgerwatch has taken the lead in research & planning state fees.
Ethereum state is growing to unmanageable sizes, hit critical point in ~2 years.
State Fee Timeline
18 - 27 months
Ewasm
Ethereum-flavoured Web Assembly
Ewasm background
- Project initiated circa 2016 by Martin Becze, Alex Beregszaszi
- Martin built Primea for Dfinity based on early concepts
- Originally intended for mainnet, then Eth2, now mainnet again?
- Has been a proper team for ~1 year
- Testnet launched at DevCon IV
- Goals
- Better precompiles, more efficient
- More languages, better DevEx
- Standards-compliant, broader ecosystem and tooling
Open Questions
- Interpreters vs. compilers
- Safety, JIT bombs
- Metering
- Route to mainnet:
- One precompile to rule them all
- Precompiles
- User-deployed contracts
- Eth1x vs Eth2
- Which languages to support?
Ewasm Timeline
Need to prepare a similar hard fork timeline as Alexey's State Fees plan.
- Now: Research on benchmarking, Wasm engines/interpreters/compilers, gas metering, etc.
- Q1 2019: Based on this research, decide on Eth1x roadmap and goals, author EIPs
- Q2 2019: Development, testing
- Q3 2019: Eth1x launch?
- In parallel: Eth2 R&D
EVM Evolution
- Greg Colvin, Brooklyn Zelenka, Boris Mann
- Have an outstanding application for EF Grant
- See https://fission.codes/evm-evolution/
EIP615 Static Jumps & Subroutines proposed for Istanbul.
Improve & maintain EVM specs with Jello Paper, formal verification
April 17th & 18th CoreDevs in Berlin
Working on bringing together a CoreDev meeting in Berlin to focus on planning. Need to set aside time that isn't adhoc at conferences – planning to improve the network needs to have priority.
Funding
Testing? Security reviews?
Open Discussion
Further notes and discussion on EthMagicians.
