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# Purr-suit of Ethereum 🐾 #7
#### Your Weekly Dose of Blockchain Updates and Meows!

Welcome to the seventh edition. Catch up on the latest updates since our [last edition](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/PoE6) and explore all past newsletters [here](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/PoE). This week, we bring you the latest on the Ethereum Foundation Leadership, Pectra and Fusaka upgrades and a roundup of upcoming Ethereum events and ecosystem developments. Stay informed, get involved, and continue contributing to the Ethereum community!

### **Summary**
* **[New Ethereum Foundation Leadership](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/PoE7#Welcoming-a-new-EF-leadership-structure)** - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stanczak appointed as co-Executive Directors. Danny Ryan returns as co-founder of Etherealize.
* **[Pectra Upgrade](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/PoE7#Pectra-PragueElectra-Upgrade)**: Holesky Validator Incident Post-Mortem & Debrief released. Grants & NFT rewards for EIP authors of Pectra Upgrade.
* **Ethereum Core Development & [EIPs](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/PoE7#EIPs-Update)**: Read EIPsInsight, watch PEEPanEIP Playlist, join Ethereum Magicians Discussions.
* **Public Goods & Community Initiatives**: A special talk with Sejal on Deep Funding.

# Welcoming a new EF leadership structure
- **[Hsiao-Wei Wang](https://x.com/hwwonx/status/1895854936916639830)** and **[Tomasz Stanczak](https://x.com/tkstanczak/status/1895854479599091871)** as co-Executive Directors at EF. [Blogpost announcement](https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/03/01/leadership-announcement) & [ConsenSys support](https://x.com/ethereumJoseph/status/1896318831288783317).
- **Thank you** Hsiao-Wei Wang for [your kind words for ECH and WiEP](https://x.com/hwwonx/status/1895905594227450069). We sincerely appreciate your support 🙏
- A new chapter in the infinite garden - [A letter to the community](https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/02/25/aya-announcement) by **Aya Miyaguchi**, The President at Ethereum Foundation.
- [**Danny Ryan** is back](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895853578167931308/photo/1)!
- [Joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io](https://x.com/dannyryan/status/1895851747865944114)
- Austin Griffith and Danny Ryan in Denver [Full video](https://x.com/EthereumDenver/status/1895910711077060716) (must watch)
- [The song](https://x.com/dannyryan/status/1896299003182289340)

# [Pectra](https://www.ethcatherders.com/upgrades/pectra) (Prague+Electra) Upgrade
[
](https://x.com/jameshe_eth/status/1894761100186464338)

- [Holesky Pectra Incident Post-Mortem](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/Pectra/holesky-postmortem.md)
- [Holesky Validator Incident Response](https://youtube.com/live/ksr-6iuSvrg?feature=share) - Feb 28, 2025
- [Holesky Debrief](https://youtu.be/WLKjhKbDQTI) - Feb 26, 2025
- Pectra Audit
- [Pectra Audit Competition Launches on Cantina](https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/02/21/pectra-audit)
- [Audit Results for the Pectra System Contracts](https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/02/28/pectra-audit-results)
- Educational Resources - [PEEPanEIP - Pectra](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqOHV_F40AJbzcl8b6tG8xw)
- [Commemorative **NFT for EIP Authors** of Pectra Upgrade](https://blog.ethcatherders.com/pectra-nft-for-eip-authors)
- [Pectra Proactive Grant Round](https://esp.ethereum.foundation/pectra-pgr) by ESP
- Holesky Pectra Upgrade Testnet [Testnet countdown](https://eipsinsight.com/pectra) & [Livestream](https://www.youtube.com/live/XfdDV0RhDyI)

### [Execution Layer Meeting 206](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1306)
- [Recording](https://youtube.com/live/tlezpGztpi8?feature=share) & [Next Steps](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/all-core-devs-execution-acde-206-february-27-2025/22896/2)
- Audio only on EthCatHerders's [Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3iNbVysSnf4L42e1M3fpa5?si=QekiReIoSPWUHpZ23iGcDA). Check [ACD Playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7k5kw4Q6t6RLiSOfsWTZGs?si=CQ-sp_LETdmaq6jJA0lmsQ&nd=1&dlsi=c3d4b5ffa1f041cf) and RSS Feed can be obtained from [here](https://anchor.fm/s/7da9c4f0/podcast/rss).
- [Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDE) #206](https://etherworld.co/2025/02/28/highlights-of-ethereums-all-core-devs-meeting-acde-206/) by @yashkamalchaturvedi

### Client testing call #26, February 24, 2025
- [Mario's Notes](https://discord.com/channels/595666850260713488/745077610685661265/1343604407891398717) & [ECH Notes](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/InteropTestingNotes#Interop-Testing-Call-26-Feb-24-2025)

## Fusaka (Fulu + Osaka) Upgrade
[](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895863075527700959)
- [EIP-7607: Hardfork Meta - Fusaka](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7607)

## Breakout & Implementers’ Meeting

### Beam Call
- [#2](https://github.com/blockblaz/zeam-community/issues/3): Recording (unaavailable at the time of writing)

### EIP-7732 Breakout Room
- [#17](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1321): [Rcording](https://youtu.be/gKzKY9IWZ0E) and Terence's Notes (unavailable at the time of writing)

### L2 Interop Working Group Call
- [#4](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1320): [Recording](https://youtu.be/pb76xwgXkSI)

### FOCIL Breakout
- [#5 ](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1325): [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9vA3FIYn8) & [Notes](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1325#issuecomment-2682951292)
- [PEEPanEIP-7805: Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) with Thomas and Julian](https://youtu.be/cUGyLx-mf6I)

### PeerDAS Breakout Room
- [#19](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1303): [Recording](https://youtu.be/NGgQuRoiHNo) & [Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ng2IrCe28kTt1BnIsjtMlKHq2MHgaja24LhFXSvqfJQ/edit?usp=sharing)

### Portal Implementers Call
- [#46](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1300): Recording (Unavailable at the time of writing) & [Notes](https://hackmd.io/@chloezhux/H1x36pYIJg)

### Stateless Implementers Call
- [#31](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1322): [Recording](https://youtu.be/Z_8pKQJwqwQ) & [Recap]

### eth_simulate Implementers' Meeting
- [Feb 24, 2025](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1302): [Recording](https://youtu.be/4hvX2CyQW8g) & [Notes](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1302#issuecomment-2683358508)

### Mev-boost community call
- [#12](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/mev-boost-community-call-12/4633)

## EIPs Update

### EIPsInsight
- [March 2025](https://eipsinsight.com/insight/2025/3)
- [February 2025](https://eipsinsight.com/insight/2025/2)

#### **New EIPs (Ethereum Improvement Proposals)**
- [Uncouple execution payload from beacon block](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9432)
- [Standardized On-Chain Return Type Encoding for Solidity Functions](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9433)
- [Block-level Warming with fair cost savings](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9428)
- [ABI attachment in wallet_sendCalls](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9422)

#### Twitter spaces with Stacks Foundation
- [EIPs with Pooja Ranjan](https://x.com/StacksOrg/status/1895504413206405380)
- [EIP x AI](https://x.com/attractfund1ng/status/1895518539580391861)

### PEEPanEIP & Ecosystem Project Demo
#### Released episodes
- [PEEPanEIP 143: EIP 7691 Blob throughput increase](https://youtu.be/Ma31xvBoySw) with Parithosh, Toni and Sam
- **[PEEPanEIP-7706: Separate gas type for calldata](https://x.com/poojaranjan19/status/1886530988164985251) with Vitalik Buterin**
- Follow playlists - [PEEPanEIP](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F) & [Pectra](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqOHV_F40AJbzcl8b6tG8xw)

#### Upcoming releases
- [ERC-7527: Token Bound Function Oracle AMM](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7527) with Elaine Zhang

## Ecosystem Project Demo
#### Recording released
- **[EPD: OSObserve](https://youtu.be/z1MKSCi0Hak)** with Rohit Malekar and Carl Cervone

#### Upcoming releases
- **Octant v2** with James K

## Public Goods Funding
- Sejal is joining EthCatherdrs to talk about Deep Funding on March 4th
- EthCatHerders participating in [Giveth's](https://giveth.io/project/ethereum-cat-herders) upcoming round

## Events

- [Ethereum SFO](https://www.ethereumsf.org/) 10-16 March 2025
- [**International Women's Day Celebration** with ECH](https://x.com/EthCatHerders/status/1895193633885954556) Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST
- [Ethereum’s Hidden Gems: Women Leading Development, Coordination and Support](https://lu.ma/vr4ws2rc) with [Nixo](https://x.com/nixorokish), [Sejal](https://x.com/sejal_rekhan) & [Katya](https://x.com/Sib_Katya)
- [Forged in Ethereum: Women Leading Innovation and Communities](https://lu.ma/o3zifebq) with [Yoyo](https://x.com/yoyocao_eth), [Laura](https://x.com/laurabxyz), [Alisha](https://x.com/futurealisha) and [Ornella](https://x.com/OrnellaWeb3)
- [Staking Summit, Dubai](https://www.stakingsummit.com/): April 28 - 29, 2025
- [ETHPrague 2025](https://ethprague.com/) - 27-29 May 2025
- [EthCC[8]](https://ethcc.io/): June 30 -July 3, 2025
- [Devconnect 2025](https://devconnect.org/): Expected in Q4-2025. Exact date - TBD. Should you have improvement suggestions, share with the team - [Improving Devconnect 2025](https://forum.devcon.org/t/rpf-9-improving-devconnect-2025/5339)
- Follow the [list of upcoming events](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NEu_FCc1hnGAuRgPmbXXpf0h2lCrCOlMKbbFEqgkVDQ/edit?gid=572241033#gid=572241033) by Nathan Sexer

## Community Resources
- WiEP - Study Group (Cohort 3) [Week 2](https://youtu.be/avCiQeM1X6s)
- [**PRIVACY POOLS** TESTNET IS LIVE](https://x.com/0xbowio/status/1895649598083121166)
- [**UNISWAP** WALLET LAUNCHES FIAT OFFRAMP—CONVERT CRYPTO TO CASH EASILY!](https://x.com/RoundtableSpace/status/1895192235659907323)
- [**MetaMask** x Mastercard – spend your crypto, anywhere.](https://x.com/francescoswiss/status/1895243792518914110)
- [Ethereum adoption timeline](https://x.com/EntEthAlliance/status/1896444034203439371)
- [$5M everyone onchain fund](https://x.com/uttam_singhk/status/1896479617625858096)

### Upcoming Research
- [Sealed transactions](https://ethresear.ch/t/sealed-transactions/21859)
- [Decentralized Random Block Proposal: Eliminating MEV and Fully Democratizing Ethereum](https://ethresear.ch/t/decentralized-random-block-proposal-eliminating-mev-and-fully-democratizing-ethereum/21856)
- [Dynamic Blob Sizing: Reducing Zero-Padding Overhead in Small Rollups](https://ethresear.ch/t/dynamic-blob-sizing-reducing-zero-padding-overhead-in-small-rollups/21846)
- [Smart Account Encrypted Mempools](https://ethresear.ch/t/smart-account-encrypted-mempools/21834)
- [Native Rollups: Promise vs. Reality](https://x.com/scrollresearch/status/1894491254454718526)
- The Robust Incentives Group [Homepage](https://efdn.notion.site/Robust-Incentives-Group-RIG-Homepage-802339956f2745a5964d8461c5ccef02), [Casper's Tweet thread](https://x.com/casparschwa/status/1894799590135865499)

### Share your project updates with us
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