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 implies the genesis of this testnet is ready to occur at 1596546008 Unix time, or 8 seconds after August 4th at 1pm UTC. When 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 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 :).

Bear 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 working effectively upfront, keep watch over your validator’s efficiency, and be looking out for any crucial 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 might be working 5 totally different purchasers at genesis!

An enormous congratulations goes out to every of those groups. If you’re working any of the above purchasers, ensure that to thank the consumer workforce and contemplate dropping some ETH or DAI into their tipjars. They’ve greater than earned it.

Remember! Medalla has particular POAP NFTs for working every consumer kind at launch. Learn up on the particulars right here 🏅

Along with the extraordinary work carried out by the eth2 consumer groups, I might like to focus on 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 a bit little bit of time on the discord this previous week, and it is an ideal place to share info, ask (and reply!) technical questions, and customarily simply collaborate across the new and thrilling eth2 staking know-how. If you’re staking on Medalla or are thinking about getting concerned, undoubtedly test it out.

I count on ethstaker, together with the client-specific discords, to be a should for validators trying to hold 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 crucial 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 easy DoS assault on teku-attack-0, highlighting some lacking primary DoS protections in JVM-libp2p
• 🏆💪🐿 awarded to Martin Swende for locating a crucial bug in Prysm SSZ decoding, which allowed a distant attacker to crash nodes on prysm-attack-0 (no financial award because 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 invention mechanism in lighthouse-attack-0

As at all times, be part of us within the Eth R&D discord #attacknet channel for discussions and tricks to get began 🚀