What started all the best way again on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a detailed: we’re joyful to announce the discharge of the ninth and final within the Ethereum Proof-of-Idea collection. We invite the group to take part within the ongoing Proof-of-Idea IX testnet in our current launch, Olympic, made available now.
The aim of Olympic is to reward individuals who attempt to take a look at the boundaries of the Ethereum blockchain through the pre-release interval, spamming the community with transactions and doing loopy issues with the state, in order that we are able to see how the community holds up beneath excessive ranges of load. On the similar time, software builders, knowledge suppliers, exchanges, and customers are inspired to develop and deploy on the testnet and run nodes – and when you’ve got a number of digital non-public servers, spin up as many nodes as you possibly can.
Olympic will function a complete prize fund of as much as 25,000 ether. There can be 4 classes of prize in addition to a grand prize for the primary particular person to create a considerable fork on the testnet.
The 4 classes of prize can be Transaction Exercise, Digital Machine Utilization, Mining Prowess and Normal Punishment. Every class will embrace a essential prize of two,500 ether, in addition to a number of smaller prizes at 100 – 1,000 ether and probably tiny rewards of 0.1-5 ether merely for collaborating. Every of the classes can be judged by Vitalik, Gavin and Jeff, seemingly with substantial assist from automated blockchain evaluation instruments. Along with the Ether, just like the bounty programme, all prize-winners can be entitled to have their title immortalised within the Ethereum Genesis block. Please word that to be thought of for a prize, ship an e-mail describing a declare to olympic@ethereum.org.
That is additionally the final section of the Ethereum growth course of earlier than the Frontier launch, because the community is presently proving to be extremely secure at its present measurement of 20-100 nodes, all main shoppers have been staying in consensus and we’re approaching code freeze pending testing and auditing inputs. It’s anticipated to final near 14 days, although we reserve the fitting to shorten or lengthen it primarily based on technical concerns. After we deem that we’re prepared, we are going to present a 48 hour countdown for the Frontier 1.0 launch.
Binaries and supply can be found right here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v0.9.18
A piece-in-progress information to Frontier is out there right here: http://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/
Transaction Exercise
This consists of exercise associated to sending and receiving transactions. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The account that sends the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best complete of fuel utilization
- The account that receives the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best bloat (as measured in bytes) to the blockchain by way of transaction trie contents
- The account with the bottom tackle (by way of lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal) that sends at the least one transaction
- The 2 accounts that ship at the least one transaction whose addresses are closest to one another
Digital Machine Utilization
This consists of exercise referring to utilizing the digital machine. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode inside a single transaction
- The account that sends the only transaction that takes the longest for a specific shopper to execute
- The account that sends the only transaction with the best ratio of time to execute per unit fuel consumed
- The account that receives the best complete variety of messages
- The account that reverts the best complete quantity of fuel utilization
- The account that creates the contract with the bottom tackle (by way of lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal)
- The account that sends the transaction with the biggest (as measured in bytes) encoded receipt RLP
- The account that produces the biggest variety of transactions whose bloom is a (distinct) prime quantity
- A creator of a contract that accommodates, for instance, a sudoku solver, taking an array of 81 values as enter and outputting the array of 81 values similar to a solved sudoku
Mining Prowess
This consists of exercise referring to mining; miners can be recognized by coinbase tackle. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The miner that produces the biggest block in the primary chain (as measured in bytes)
- The miner that contributes the biggest complete variety of bytes of block knowledge to the primary chain
- The miner that mines the biggest variety of blocks in a row
- The miner that features probably the most transactions
- The miner that produces the block that takes the longest period of time for a specific shopper to course of
Normal Punishment
This consists of mucking round with the State in loopy methods, getting contracts to do loopy issues. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The sender/miner of the transaction/block that provides the biggest variety of gadgets to contract storage
- The creator of the contract with the biggest code (externally-owned accounts solely)
- The creator of the contract with probably the most stuffed gadgets in storage
- The creator of the contract that accommodates a key/worth pair with the best merkle tree depth (ie. the biggest variety of hash lookups earlier than attending to the worth)
- The creator of the contract that suicides whereas containing probably the most stuffed gadgets in storage
- The creator of the contract that makes the biggest variety of consecutive storage updates such that the storage root at every step is a major quantity.
Observe that the above classes are not at all an exhaustive listing of issues which might be eligible for prizes. In case you do something outdoors of the above that you simply really feel deserves consideration, please e-mail us.
The Grand Prize
A grand prize of at the least 5,000 ether can be shared between the miner(s) who handle to create a considerable fork between the Go and C++ shoppers. The fork have to be on the primary chain; one shopper should settle for the block with the opposite shopper rejecting it. Smaller prizes for forks between Go/C++ and Python may be accessible.
Good luck, and we look ahead to seeing and listening to what you all provide you with!
– The ethereum core dev crew
