Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 38 Agenda

Meeting Date/Time: Friday 05/18/18 at 14:00 GMT

Meeting Duration 1.5 hours

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Agenda

1. Testing & EIP 1085: Common genesis.json format scheme across all client implementations
2. Client Updates
3. Research Updates
4. EIP 908: Reward clients for a sustainable network - When each transaction is validated, give a reward to clients for developing the client - When each transaction is validated, give a reward to clients for developing the client and provide a reward to full nodes for validating the transaction (Ethereum Magicians thread).
5. EIP 1057: ProgPOW, a programmatic Proof-of-Work - an alternate proof-of-work algorithm - “ProgPoW” - tuned for commodity hardware in order to close the efficiency gap available to specialized ASICs. Technical details.
6. EIP 210: Blockhash refactoring - @holiman wants to finalize a few points:
   a. the original intent (no semantic changes to BLOCKHASH -- only gas changes) versus the current spec (semantic changes), and
   b. whether to make it nicer to ABI-call it, and
   c. whether to add genesis lookup in there.
   d. Fixes for EIP-210 blockhash contract: EIP-210: Fixes for blockhash contracts EIPs#1094.
   See this summary document.
7. EIP 1051: Overflow checking for the EVM
8. EIP 1052: EXTCODEHASH Opcode
9. EIP 1087: Net gas metering for SSTORE operations
10. Concerns that using native browser VMs for running eWasm is not DoS hardened. See this comment and this comment.
11. Constantinople hard fork timing and what to include (continuing conversation from last call).
12. Core dev meeting discussion & changes - scope of agenda items, role of participants, etc.

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