Ethereum’s core developers are debating the priorities for the next hard fork after “Dencun,” which could come in late 2024 or 2025.

Following Thursday’s All Core Devs call, the tentative schedule for the Dencun fork remains unchanged, with the Goerli testnet first up on Jan. 17.

With the rollout of the upgrade looking likely in March, developers are turning attention to what comes next in Prague-Electra — Pralectra for short — the upgrade to follow.

Still very much in flux, a debate is in progress on the overall vision: Either a feature-focused set of smaller Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) or a major protocol upgrade to introduce Verkle Trees to the execution… Read more on Blockworks