Last week the LambdaClass team took part in Soldøgn Interop in Svalbard, Norway, an event organized by the Ethereum Foundation that brought together more than 100 Ethereum core developers above the Arctic Circle to work for a week on strengthening the implementations of Glamsterdam, the network's next upgrade. Pablo Deymonnaz, director of UBA's Center for Cryptography and Distributed Systems, was among the participants.
How the protocol gets defined in practice
Ethereum is a protocol maintained by multiple independent teams that develop different implementations — different clients — which must work compatibly with one another. An interop is a working session where those teams meet in person to verify that compatibility, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate the development of new features before they reach mainnet.
Soldøgn was organized specifically to work on Glamsterdam, Ethereum's next upgrade. The areas addressed included ePBS (enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation), BALs, EIP-8037 (repricing), and FOCIL — mechanisms aimed at improving the security, decentralization, and censorship resistance of the network.
The connection with the Center
LambdaClass is one of the organizations sustaining the link between CCSD and the international research ecosystem in distributed systems. Its team's participation in events like Soldøgn matters for the Center because it sets the technical bar its agenda is aiming for: training researchers and developers capable of contributing to the development of base distributed infrastructure, not only of applying it.