What started all the best way again on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to an in depth: we’re glad to announce the discharge of the ninth and final within the Ethereum Proof-of-Idea sequence. We invite the group to take part within the ongoing Proof-of-Idea IX testnet in our current launch, Olympic, made out there now.

The aim of Olympic is to reward individuals who attempt to take a look at the bounds of the Ethereum blockchain in the course of the pre-release interval, spamming the community with transactions and doing loopy issues with the state, in order that we will see how the community holds up underneath 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’ll be able to.

Olympic will characteristic a complete prize fund of as much as 25,000 ether. There might 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 might be Transaction Exercise, Digital Machine Utilization, Mining Prowess and Normal Punishment. Every class will embody a predominant prize of two,500 ether, in addition to a number of smaller prizes at 100 – 1,000 ether and presumably tiny rewards of 0.1-5 ether merely for collaborating. Every of the classes might 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 might be entitled to have their identify immortalised within the Ethereum Genesis block. Please word that to be thought-about 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 at the moment proving to be extremely secure at its present measurement of 20-100 nodes, all main purchasers 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 proper to shorten or lengthen it based mostly on technical issues. After we deem that we’re prepared, we’ll 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 on the market 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 embody:

• The account that sends the very best whole variety of transactions
• The account that contributes the very best whole of fuel utilization
• The account that receives the very best whole variety of transactions
• The account that contributes the very 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 regarding utilizing the digital machine. Examples of issues we’d reward embody:

• The account that makes the very best variety of calls of any opcode
• The account that makes the very best variety of calls of any opcode inside a single transaction
• The account that sends the one transaction that takes the longest for a selected consumer to execute
• The account that sends the one transaction with the very best ratio of time to execute per unit fuel consumed
• The account that receives the very best whole variety of messages
• The account that reverts the very best whole 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 most important (as measured in bytes) encoded receipt RLP
• The account that produces the most important variety of transactions whose bloom is a (distinct) prime quantity
• A creator of a contract that incorporates, for instance, a sudoku solver, taking an array of 81 values as enter and outputting the array of 81 values akin to a solved sudoku

Mining Prowess

This consists of exercise regarding mining; miners might be recognized by coinbase tackle. Examples of issues we’d reward embody:

• The miner that produces the most important block in the principle chain (as measured in bytes)
• The miner that contributes the most important whole variety of bytes of block knowledge to the principle chain
• The miner that mines the most important 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 selected consumer 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 embody:

• The sender/miner of the transaction/block that provides the most important variety of gadgets to contract storage
• The creator of the contract with the most important code (externally-owned accounts solely)
• The creator of the contract with probably the most stuffed gadgets in storage
• The creator of the contract that incorporates a key/worth pair with the very best merkle tree depth (ie. the most important 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 most important variety of consecutive storage updates such that the storage root at every step is a main quantity.

Be aware that the above classes are certainly not an exhaustive listing of issues which can be eligible for prizes. In case you do something exterior 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 might be shared between the miner(s) who handle to create a considerable fork between the Go and C++ purchasers. The fork have to be on the principle chain; one consumer should settle for the block with the opposite consumer rejecting it. Smaller prizes for forks between Go/C++ and Python may additionally be out there.

Good luck, and we sit up for seeing and listening to what you all give you!

– The ethereum core dev group