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 have been met on Friday, which suggests the genesis of this testnet is about to occur at 1596546008 Unix time, or 8 seconds after August 4th at 1pm UTC. In case you’re curious as to how that point is calculated, take a look at Ben Edgington’s fast genesis explainer.
The launch of Medalla is a big milestone within the improvement of eth2 — if Medalla proves steady, mainnet launch is subsequent — and represents years of hardwork by numerous engineers, researchers, and group members. We hope you’re 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 costume rehearsal for mainnet launch — have your nodes working effectively prematurely, control your validator’s efficiency, and be looking out for any important updates to your shopper’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 can 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, ensure to thank the shopper group and contemplate 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 shopper kind at launch. Learn up on the details here 🏅
Along with the extraordinary work carried out by the eth2 shopper groups, I would 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 slightly little bit of time on the discord this previous week, and it is an important place to share data, ask (and reply!) technical questions, and customarily simply collaborate across the new and thrilling eth2 staking expertise. If you’re staking on Medalla or are occupied with getting concerned, undoubtedly test it out.
I count on ethstaker, together with the client-specific discords, to be a should for validators trying to maintain 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 beneath 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 simple DoS attack on teku-attack-0, highlighting some lacking primary DoS protections in JVM-libp2p
- 🏆💪🐿 awarded to Martin Swende for locating a critical bug in Prysm SSZ decoding, which allowed a distant attacker to crash nodes on prysm-attack-0 (no financial award as a consequence of 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 discovery 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 🚀
