Pectra Retrospective w/Nixo and Yorick

On Ep. 78 of Infinite Jungle, Christine welcomes back Ethereum Foundation’s Nixo and Galaxy’s Yorick to the show. They have a mini-debrief session on the Pectra upgrade planning process and debate how useful exercises like a Pectra retrospective are to the evolution of Ethereum. They also discuss the pros and cons of creating minimum hardware and bandwidth requirements for Ethereum validators. Christine recommends that Nixo present her own document on validator hardware and bandwidth requirements for the Ethereum staking community.

Guests:

Name: Nixo Rokish

Title: Former Executive Director of EthStaker and Protocol Support Team Member at the Ethereum Foundation

X: https://x.com/nixorokish

Yorick Downe

Title: Founder of Cryptomanufaktur and Chief Architect of Blockchain Services at Galaxy

X: https://x.com/yorickdowne

Show note links:

• The official Pectra retrospective forum (https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/pectra-retrospective/22637)
• Graphic of past Ethereum forks since 2020 (https://x.com/nixorokish/status/1884705154890596601)
• EIP for validator hardware and bandwidth requirements (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9270)
• EthPandaOps community data collection efforts (https://ethpandaops.io/posts/contribute-to-xatu-data/) 
• Validator hardware and bandwidth requirements discussion forum (https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/hardware-and-bandwidth-recommendations-for-full-nodes-and-validators/22675/6)

Timestamps:

(00:00:38) The Pectra retrospective

(00:31:41) Minimum validator hardware and bandwidth requirements

This episode was recorded on Friday, February 7, 2025.

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