EIP-8379
Top-up Sync
CL-driven EL synchronization by exposing the execution client head and distinguishing missing state from missing history in the engine API
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- Draft6 Aug 2026
Abstract
This EIP introduces an engine API method for querying the execution client head, distinguishing the head of the block chain from the head for which state is held, and refines the payload status semantics so that a missing pre-state is distinguishable from missing block history. Together, these changes allow the consensus client to drive execution block sync deterministically ("top-up sync")…
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- 6 Aug 2026
- Authors
- Jacek Sieka, Dustin, Tamaghna Choudhuri
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