Pectra is live on Ethereum mainnet! - Smart account wallet UX features now active - L2 scaling data storage blobs increased by 2x - Validator UX improvements live Community members will continue to monitor for any issues over the next 24 hours.

"most prefer to dance kumbaya" is vibes, not reality. From where I'm standing, there's basically universal agreement among researchers that gas limit increase features are top priority for glamsterdam. @adietrichs and others in ER have this as their primary focus: delayed execution, block-level access lists, 4444, gas pricing changes, all things that can together enable gas limit -> 300m (not 100m) If the functionality is done sooner than glamsterdam, then glamsterdam itself can happen "sooner than glamsterdam". I'm seeing a lot of willingness to do faster hard forks post-pectra with near-zero pushback. And all the other things are already in the pipeline. 7702 solves the "click two times to swap" thing, that's in pectra (though it requires wallet support). Based rollups are making rapid progress (@taikoxyz and @NethermindEth Surge are good to follow here). Long-term AA (7701) is being aggressively simplified (thank you @yoavw!) so that we can get the benefits of abstracted verification (with censorship resistance) with minimum load on consensus spec.

@rstormsf @alex_pertsev You created Tornado in significant part because of my suggestion that it is something worth building. It would violate basic honor for me to do that, and then fail to support you in your hour of need. In Ethereum we protect our own, and uphold our honor. Milady

One important corollary of this is better EIP 1559 performance (because fewer blocks bump up against the 2x limit). So far, the percentage of full blocks has dropped from ~20% to ~10%. https://t.co/qmCkqzYn2z