Ethereum core developers continue to grapple with the scope of the forthcoming Pectra upgrade, specifically the inclusion of EIPs related to the EVM Object Format (EOF).

Thursday’s All-Core Devs call was dominated by debate over the feature set due to concerns raised by Geth developer Marius van der Wijden.

In a recent blog post, van der Wijden laid out his case against EOF, concluding that “the drawbacks strongly outweigh the potential benefits.” In his view, the uncertainty around its efficacy, coupled with unknown security implications and other potential risks resulting from complexity, should merit removal.

It’s a bit of a reversal for the developer, who said in February he…

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