Danno Ferrin is a seasoned Ethereum core developer with a deep-rooted passion for the technology.  He has been focused  the evolution of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), contributing significantly to its ongoing development and optimization.

With a background spanning roles at Oracle, Google, and ConsenSys, Danno brings a wealth of experience to his work on Ethereum. He is currently an independent contributor to the ecosystem.

Danno Ferrin

EOF is one of the important parts of the upcoming Pectra upgrade, delivering long-standing feature requests to the EVM. This talk aims to provide insight into its history, significance, and role in Ethereum and EVM improvement, and explore the rationale for including it in the next upgrade, its potential impacts and implications, as well as long-term advantages and possible challenges.

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EVM Object Format (EOF) - History and motivation

While the EVM Object Format provides a mechanism to modernize the EVM, the container format itself provides a stable path for innovation and experimentation within the base and rollup layers of ethereum, as well as rollup layers, and even chain free execution.

In this presentation we will show how the structure of the EOF container may be adapted to support these potential use cases.