Celestia Core Devs Call 15 notes
Date: Wednesday, August 7th
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds
Action Items
Overview
- Celestia Core Dev’s Call 15 focused on working group updates and upcoming upgrades
- Lemongrass hard fork (CIP-17) and Celestia App v2 upgrades timelines slightly pushed back:
- Arabica (mid-August)
- Mocha (end of August)
- Mainnet (early September)
- CIP-24 introduced to simplify gas estimation for clients by making cost variables version-based instead of governance-modifiable
Working group updates
- Interface working group: Draft CIP in progress, to be completed by end of August
- ZK working group: Started work on exploring paths leading to ZK accounts, discussion planned for next week
- ZK working group sync meetings now biweekly, alternating with core dev calls
Lemongrass hard fork and Celestia App v2 upgrades
- Celestia Node to release update supporting Celestia App v2 soon
- Arabica devnet upgrade planned for August 14th
- Node operators must upgrade within 1 week timeframe
- Consensus node operators need to use a specific CLI flag (see documentation)
- Application owners on Arabica advised to monitor before and after upgrade
- Upgrade process: Arabica first, then Mocha, finally Mainnet
CIP 24: Constant gas costs for blob transactions
- CIP-24 aims to simplify gas estimation for clients submitting transactions and blobs
- Changes two governance-modifiable variables to version-based constants:
blob.GasPerBlobByteauth.TxSizeCostPerByte
- Allows clients to rely on consistent values for gas calculations within major versions
- Draft PR with reference implementation nearly ready
- CIP to remain in draft status until implementation is complete