For the primary time ever, the Ethereum Basis will likely be sponsoring a variety of hacker prizes associated to Eth2 at a significant hackathon.
With Eth2 growth continuing quickly, there are actually many discrete areas of labor {that a} workforce of motivated hackers can full over a weekend. The bounties under embody helpful academic instruments for Eth2 growth, essential tooling, and worthwhile analysis.
Members of Eth2 groups will likely be out there remotely through the hackathon to reply questions from hackers and supply recommendation associated to those prizes.
The EF will provide 5 prizes of $1,000 every, for initiatives that sort out any (or a couple of!) of the next concepts:
Schooling
- Implement the proposed BLS key requirements (EIPs 2333, 2334, 2335) in a language of your selection (suggestion: one of many eth2 client languages)
- Quick viz: Given only a single BeaconState, visualize the final occasions and validator registry state (suggestion: use lodestar code to work within the browser)
- Attestation encompass/double vote checker (suggestion: take a look at eth2.0-pm repo issue 63)
- Attestation pool: make a naked bones software that listens on the attestation aggregation subnets and international web, and present what’s there (suggestion: begin with logging acquired attestations)
- Beacon node load balancer: implement a validator API that proxies visitors to any wholesome up-to-date beacon node (suggestion: take present http proxy, and deal with the nodes well being standing)
- Netstats2: log/visualize the well being standing of an inventory of eth2 testnet nodes (suggestion: prysm or lighthouse testnet, begin with easy api queries like newest block)
- Merkle multi proof builder: try simpleserialize.com and the tree visualization. This could possibly be enhanced with checkboxes in every node to interactively create multiproofs with (suggestion: begin with a easy proof encoding format – Cayman Nava and Proto will likely be out there to assist on the ETHWaterloo discord)
- Validator monitoring: a service you could level at a validator and it notifies you if the validator is offline.
Analysis
Involved in different bounties or prizes supplied by the Ethereum Basis?
Listed below are a number of different bounties at the moment dwell:
Ethereum.org Gitcoin Bounties
Legendre PRF
- The Legendre pseudo-random perform is a particularly MPC-friendly one bit PRF. This PRF is at the moment slated for use within the proof of custody scheme in Section 1 of Eth 2.0, as it’s the solely recognized methodology to make the proof of custody doable in a shared secret setting. To encourage extra analysis about this PRF, the Ethereum Basis has set out a collection of bounties right here: legendreprf.org/bounties
STARK-Pleasant Hash Problem
- The Ethereum Basis has requested StarkWare to advocate a STARK-Pleasant Hash (SFH). The StarkWare hash problem is a public competitors aimed toward evaluating the safety of present proposed SFH candidates. The problem is proposed at 4 safety ranges: low-security, medium-security, target-security, and high-security in a number of situations. See starkware.co/hash-challenge for extra particulars concerning the competitors and how one can get began.
