Call Info

‍‍Hello everyone from the weekly Gnosis Core Devs Call. This meeting is repeated on Wednesday every week. Watch on Gnosis Chain YouTube
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Participants: Erigon, Gateway, Nethermind, Gnosis DevOps, Gnosis Core Devs, Gnosis Comms team and the contributors.

Topics:

• Shanghai upgrades details from Nethermind

• RPC updates from Gateway

• Suggestion from Stefan: Increase base fee to 1GWEI?

Let's take a look at the core devs call updates.

Erigon

• Chiado: Might be finished this month

• Mainnet: Erigon got stuck while syncing mainnet twice, reboot helped

• Also affects other networks

• Not seen in 2.36.1 yet

• Work going on for withdrawals (for Ethereum mainnet)

• We should review the specs for Gnosis when everyone is back, because there’s some new context

Gateway

• Launched archival RPC (Gnosis mainnet)

• Will launch a website with the new public RPC

• Launching checkpoint sync for Chiado (probably today)

• Fixed an issue with the rate limiter that was too eager

• Looking into looking a bridge validator on Chiado, and then on mainnet

• Waiting for Giacomo to accept traffic on the RPC

Nethermind

• Implementation for withdrawals on Gnosis (and mainnet)

• Only missing part is the smart contract used for withdrawals

• Stefan: Ihor will write the contracts (WIP, ETA: 1 month)
  
  Stefan: Increase base fee to 1GWEI? ‍

• Allows us to make constant spamming very costly. Currently it is too cheap.

• Current base fee: 7 wei -> extremely cheap to spam the network for a long time

• Increasing the base fee to 1 gwei would make it expensive to spam the network even for 10 minutes

• Would require a simple hard fork, which could be included in another hard fork
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  Jorge (Nethermind)‍

• No strong opinion

• The computation limit is bound by the gas limit anyways

• Sustained loads would increase the gas price exponentially as per EIP-1559

• On Chiado, a spam of 30 - 60 minutes increased the base fee to hundreds of gwei

• The main idea is to prevent nefarious actors to put relevant transactions on hold for some time, which would degrade user experience
  
  

Gnosis DevOps

• Chiado RPC routing implemented (testing with Gateway), then mainnet

• 2 Chiado long-term bootnodes

• Update configs

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