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- Merge testing continues with Fuzz Testing and Shadow Forking of Goerli, Mainnet, and merging Ropsten
- Hive2 testing system released, Besu being updated to participateparticipating and passing majority of tests
Peering Improvements
- Improve peer discovery speed
- Investigate peer reputation scoring system
- Fix defects on peering
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- Investigate faster scaling to high volume read RPC traffic
Next (up to 22.8)
Merge & Post-Merge Clean-up
- Reduction of tech-debt post-Merge relating to addition of new features and specs
- Fix of outstanding, non-critical issues relating to the Merge
Modularization of Besu
- Assess various approaches to modularization and investigate each option
- The desired outcome of this work is faster release cycle of Besu, increased adoption of Besu leveraged by composability
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The team will be exploring different options for supporting MEV APIs (most likely this will take place on the consensus layer post-Merge)
"Shanghai" Upgrade
First fork after Mainnet, whatever it is called. Bullets are notional until committed to on All-Core-Devs calls.
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