All eyes on Medalla testnet — genesis in lower than 24 hours 👀
tl;dr
Medalla testnet launches tomorrow 🏅
The minimal validator deposits (16k+ of them) required to kick off the Medalla testnet had been met on Friday, which implies the genesis of this testnet is ready to occur at 1596546008 Unix time, or 8 seconds after August 4th at 1pm UTC. For those who’re curious as to how that point is calculated, try Ben Edgington’s fast genesis explainer.
The launch of Medalla is a large milestone within the improvement of eth2 — if Medalla proves secure, mainnet launch is subsequent — and represents years of hardwork by numerous engineers, researchers, and group members. We hope you might be as excited as we’re :).
Keep in mind, the overwhelming majority of validators on the Medalla testnet are run by you, the group. We’re counting on you to deal with this as a gown rehearsal for mainnet launch — have your nodes working nicely prematurely, keep watch over your validator’s efficiency, and be looking out for any important updates to your consumer’s software program (in different phrases, deal with your testnet validators as in the event that they’re securing actual ETH).
Shopper variety 👯♀️
The group will probably be working 5 totally different shoppers at genesis!
An enormous congratulations goes out to every of those groups. If you’re working any of the above shoppers, be sure to thank the consumer group and think about dropping some ETH or DAI into their tipjars. They’ve greater than earned it.
Do not forget! Medalla has particular POAP NFTs for working every consumer sort at launch. Learn up on the particulars right here 🏅
Along with the extraordinary work carried out by the eth2 consumer groups, I might like to focus on ethstaker — a burgeoning user-driven useful resource for the fledgling validator group. This community-run effort goals to supply a house to the hobbyist staking group within the type of a subreddit and discord server.
I’ve spent a little bit little bit of time on the discord this previous week, and it is an amazing place to share data, ask (and reply!) technical questions, and customarily simply collaborate across the new and thrilling eth2 staking know-how. If you’re staking on Medalla or are fascinated with getting concerned, positively test it out.
I count on ethstaker, together with the client-specific discords, to be a should for validators seeking to hold updated with all issues validator-related.
mc-attack-0 attacknet launch
mc-attack-0, a brand new multi-client attacknet, launched at the moment!
This new attacknet falls underneath the beta-1 categorization with up to date guidelines and elevated bounties — as much as $15k for important exploits.
Because the launch of the preliminary beta-0 attacknets, we have awarded for the next assaults:
- $5000 awarded to Jonny Rhea for performing a easy DoS assault on teku-attack-0, highlighting some lacking fundamental DoS protections in JVM-libp2p
- 🏆💪🐿 awarded to Martin Swende for locating a important bug in Prysm SSZ decoding, which allowed a distant attacker to crash nodes on prysm-attack-0 (no financial award resulting from Martin engaged on safety on the EF)
- $5000 awarded to AlexSSD7 for performing an L4 DDoS on prysm-attack-0, halting finality on the 4-node community and highlighting a clock-skew that prevented nodes from mending themselves after the assault
- $1000 awarded (honorable point out) to Jonny Rhea for taking down the invention mechanism in lighthouse-attack-0
As all the time, be part of us within the Eth R&D discord #attacknet channel for discussions and tricks to get began 🚀
