tl;dr
This week the EF introduced the Eth2 Staking Community Grants spherical in an effort to assist a extra pleasant staking expertise.
That is an open name for proposals for grants that intention to reinforce all issues staking — instruments, documentation, instructional assets, and many others.
Check it out for extra particulars together with a non-exhaustive wishlist.
Proposals are due by December twenty second!
v1.0 eth2 testnets — Toledo and Pyrmont
This week, consumer builders led by protolambda launched the Toledo devnet — a 16k validator testnet with v1.0 mainnet configuration. Though you may sync up your favourite node to this testnet, you can not make any validator deposits as a consequence of the usage of a modified, permissioned deposit contract. Toledo is for preliminary v1.0 testing and continued developer experimentation.
Subsequent week, we intention to launch Pyrmont — a 100k validator testnet mimicking mainnet circumstances as intently as potential. As soon as Pyrmont is launched and steady, the testnet will probably be opened as much as the neighborhood. Pyrmont can function a remaining place to check mainnet software program releases and {hardware} setups within the run-up to mainnet launch.
As a result of Pyrmont makes use of mainnet configuration, it’s topic to the identical (gradual) activation queue mechanics you would possibly expertise on mainnet. Please be a great citizen and solely make one or two validator deposits. This may maintain the queue occasions cheap within the subsequent few weeks and permit for a productive testbed for all customers.
Pyrmont will probably be supported not less than by way of eth2 mainnet genesis. From there, we’ll think about the choices obtainable to assemble a long-term testnet with higher stability and UX properties. This may seemingly embrace sooner queue processing and a a lot larger minimal ejection stability.
However till then, take pleasure in Pyrmont!
Mainnet deposits
In case you did not catch it final week, the eth2 mainnet deposit contract is stay together with the mainnet Launch Pad. The mainnet deposit contract lives on the following deal with — 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa. Please triple-check this deal with earlier than sending any funds anyplace.
A fast reminder — though the MIN_GENESIS_TIME is December 1st, 12pm UTC, there’s a 7-day GENESIS_DELAY. Which means to make sure you get your deposits included within the genesis block, you need to get them on-chain earlier than November 24, 12pm UTC.
For a extra detailed dialogue of how genesis is kicked off, see Ben Edgington’s genesis writeup.
Glad staking 🚀
