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PEEPanEIP#76: Go-Ethereum & TheMerge with Marius Van Der Wijden
Episode 76

PEEPanEIP#76: Go-Ethereum & TheMerge with Marius Van Der Wijden

ECH Institute Podcast · ECH Institute Inc.

July 12, 202259m 5s

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Show Notes

Check out the video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRAIiefswCY


Topics covered
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Client’s introduction
Guest’s introduction
Presentation
About Go-ethereum
Merge code
Merge testnet preparations
Shadow forking
Testnet Forking
Client Releases
Ropsten Merge Issues
Other Testing - Fuzzing, Hive test, Kurtosis, Antithesis
Interesting bugs
Cool upcoming features - Reverse diff, Verkle trees, Danksharding, Light clients, Chain pruning, Shanghai, Withdrawals
Q & A - What difference did fuzzing & testing made on testing the merge
What is the main reason for the continued shadow fork? How many more shadow forking is expected?
EL specific metrices that Geth or other client teams are taking care of
Any special preparation for Goerli & Prater testnet as both are long running testnets
Plug in - Shadow forking episode :)
Best client combination
Do you think Geth will be the majority client post merge?
Journey towards the merge upgrade so far?
Message for our listeners

Resources:
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Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10Ox1kyDOyVARkYVkZ4WYgxAqeaHH0-5XYT-af-KwrfA/edit#slide=id.p

Kiln - The Merge Testnet & Goreli shadow forking with Marius - https://youtu.be/3AkDPL0RWtk

EIP-3607: Reject transactions from senders with deployed code (Marius W & Andrew A.) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRBsjDVQnI&list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F&index=28&t=2s

EIP-1474: Remote procedure call specification with Erik Marks & Marius VanDerWijden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxhXsg9g4nc&list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F&index=49&t=1s

KnowYourClient - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxoruie1hmYWJfiakpYivXft

PEEPanEIP playlist -https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F

TheMerge playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqoLxXqZqT4hcYhoHoP6w12

Check out upcoming EIPs in Peep an EIP series at https://github.com/ethereum-cat-herders/PM/projects/2

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