On Ep. 56 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats again with Galaxy Blockchain Engineer Yorick Downe and Former Executive Director of EthStaker Nixo Rokish about the latest developments in the Ethereum staking ecosystem. Nixo speaks about her new role at the Ethereum Foundation as part of the Protocol Support team. She voices her opinion about how developers should refrain from including a blob throughput increase in Pectra due to a lack of sufficient data on the impact of such an increase on the solo staking community. Yorick highlights initiatives that he is working on at EthStaker to improve the performance of validator nodes run by solo stakers.

Guests:

Nixo Rokish, Former Executive Director of EthStaker and Protocol Support Team Member at the Ethereum Foundation

https://x.com/nixorokish

Yorick Downe, Founder of Cryptomanufaktur and Blockchain Engineer at Galaxy

https://x.com/yorickdowne

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Timestamps:

(00:02:15) Nixo’s New Role at the Ethereum Foundation

(00:04:06) Concerns about a Blob Throughput Increase in Pectra

(00:07:32) Difference Between Bandwidth Usage vs. Requirements

(00:10:34 ) Engine_getBlobsV1 and IDONTWANT Message Explained

(00:13:09) The Power of Changing Routers for Solo Stakers

(00:19:04) How Solo Stakers Could Go About Changing Routers

(00:24:26) Will Data About Blobs Inform Decisions About Pectra?

This episode was recorded on Thursday, October 4, 2024.

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