Author: Olivia Martinez

Thanks to Danny and Joe for review. As the launch of the beacon chain grows nearer and eth2 becomes ever more final, the time has come to fast-sync the community with the latest on the inner workings of eth2 and on the concrete requirements, incentives and experience of being a validator. This article will provide a high-level overview of eth2 which will form the basis for a series on all aspects of eth2 relevant to validators. eth2 has been in the works for a long time now and has improved dramatically over the years. What were initially separate sharding and…

Welcome to this week’s eth2 quick update! tldr; Shasper joins Prysmatic’s testnet Parity’s eth2 client, Shasper, successfully joined Prysmatic’s Sapphire Testnet marking the first public multi-client eth2 testnet. This is the exciting start of many multi-client testnets to come in the next month. You can now pull down the Shasper codebase and with a few commands, and connect to the Sapphire testnet. If you want to give it a shot, follow the instructions here. Eth2 block explorers launch Not one but two (!) eth2 block explorers recently launched. Both of these block explorers currently monitor Prysmatic Labs’ Sapphire Testnet, providing…

ETH 1.x: a fast sync The new direction of ETH 1.x research has begun proper, with a focus on moving the current Ethereum chain towards the ‘stateless client’ paradigm, with the eventual target being a smooth transition into an Eth 2.0 Execution Environment. The next call will be focused on collecting and organizing research topics and planning a more structured roadmap. The call is open for anyone to attend, and is scheduled for December 17th at 16:00 UTC — if you would like to join, please DM Piper Merriam or James Hancock on the ethresear.ch forum. This post is a…

Welcome to this week’s eth2 quick update! A handful of new eth2 testnets have come online and last week I had them all running on my laptop. There is still plenty of work to be done, but this is getting real :). tldr; Comprehensive Phase 0 audit to be conducted by Least Authority We are excited to announce an upcoming eth2 spec audit to be conducted by Least Authority. This is a comprehensive security audit of the eth2 core Phase 0 specifications focusing on critical items such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, resource misuse attacks that could lead to…

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