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. If you happen to’re curious as to how that point is calculated, try Ben Edgington’s fast genesis explainer.
The launch of Medalla is a big milestone within the improvement of eth2 — if Medalla proves secure, mainnet launch is subsequent — and represents years of hardwork by numerous engineers, researchers, and neighborhood 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 neighborhood. We’re counting on you to deal with this as a costume rehearsal for mainnet launch — have your nodes operating nicely upfront, regulate 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).
Consumer variety 👯♀️
The neighborhood can be operating 5 completely different purchasers at genesis!
An enormous congratulations goes out to every of those groups. If you’re operating any of the above purchasers, ensure that 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 operating every consumer sort at launch. Learn up on the details here 🏅
Along with the extraordinary work carried out by the eth2 consumer groups, I would like to spotlight ethstaker — a burgeoning user-driven useful resource for the fledgling validator neighborhood. This community-run effort goals to supply a house to the hobbyist staking neighborhood 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 awesome place to share info, ask (and reply!) technical questions, and usually simply collaborate across the new and thrilling eth2 staking expertise. If you’re staking on Medalla or are involved in 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 in the present day!
This new attacknet falls beneath the beta-1 categorization with up to date guidelines and elevated bounties — as much as $15k for important exploits.
For the reason that 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 fundamental 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 result 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 a part of us within the Eth R&D discord #attacknet channel for discussions and tricks to get began 🚀
