tl;dr
This week the EF introduced the Eth2 Staking Community Grants spherical in an effort to help a extra pleasant staking expertise.
That is an open name for proposals for grants that intention to boost all issues staking — instruments, documentation, academic sources, and many others.
Check it out for extra particulars together with a non-exhaustive wishlist.
Proposals are due by December twenty second!
v1.0 eth2 testnets — Toledo and Pyrmont
This week, consumer builders led by protolambda launched the Toledo devnet — a 16k validator testnet with v1.0 mainnet configuration. Though you may sync up your favourite node to this testnet, you can’t make any validator deposits as a consequence of the usage of a modified, permissioned deposit contract. Toledo is for preliminary v1.0 testing and continued developer experimentation.
Subsequent week, we intention to launch Pyrmont — a 100k validator testnet mimicking mainnet situations as intently as doable. As soon as Pyrmont is launched and secure, the testnet will probably be opened as much as the neighborhood. Pyrmont can function a closing place to check mainnet software program releases and {hardware} setups within the run-up to mainnet launch.
As a result of Pyrmont makes use of mainnet configuration, it’s topic to the identical (sluggish) activation queue mechanics you may expertise on mainnet. Please be citizen and solely make one or two validator deposits. This may hold the queue instances affordable within the subsequent few weeks and permit for a productive testbed for all customers.
Pyrmont will probably be supported not less than by means of eth2 mainnet genesis. From there, we’ll take into account the choices out there to assemble a long-term testnet with higher stability and UX properties. This could doubtless embody quicker queue processing and a a lot larger minimal ejection steadiness.
However till then, take pleasure in Pyrmont!
Mainnet deposits
In case you did not catch it final week, the eth2 mainnet deposit contract is stay together with the mainnet Launch Pad. The mainnet deposit contract lives on the following handle — 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa. Please triple-check this handle earlier than sending any funds wherever.
A fast reminder — though the MIN_GENESIS_TIME is December 1st, 12pm UTC, there’s a 7-day GENESIS_DELAY. Which means to make sure you get your deposits included within the genesis block, you could get them on-chain earlier than November 24, 12pm UTC.
For a extra detailed dialogue of how genesis is kicked off, see Ben Edgington’s genesis writeup.
Glad staking 🚀
