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Friday, Feb 11 at 14:00 UTC (9:00 ET)
Duration: 60 mins

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Pre-call Resources

• How The Merge Impacts Ethereum’s Application Layer
• AllCoreDevs Update 007 ⛓ - details about post merge Execution and Consensus client architectures
• Ethereum Protocol Update - Nov 2021 - high level overview of changes coming with the merge, naming conventions

Discussion

• post-Merge Testnets
• Kintsugi and its replacement
• getting applications to deploy and test on the new devnet
• block times go from ~13s to exactly 12s from PoW to PoS. eg. will impact lending contracts that make assumptions for calculating annual rates
• tx fees go to validator address on the Execution layer: see here
• Validators should run both and Execution and Consensus client. Outsourcing to infura / web3 providers will be discouraged to prepare for Proof of Custody designs
• EIP-4399
• Help Marius with testing: Merge Testing

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