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ETH1x 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

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18 - 27 months

Ewasm

Ethereum-flavoured Web Assembly

https://github.com/ewasm

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: Improve the EVM, support eWASM team with forward compatibility and transition planning.

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.

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