Minimal ETH threshold hit 🎉; genesis on December 1st, 12pm UTC
Get your nodes working! and monitor updates by genesis 👀
Eth2 genesis, December 1st. Prepare!
This week, the deposit contract hit the minimal threshold of 16384 32-ETH validator deposits, kicking genesis into movement. Genesis time is 1606824023 — that’s, December 1, 2020, 12:00:23pm UTC.
When you made genesis deposits, please be sure you’re an energetic participant this week.
Arrange your node 🖥
It is time to configure your node. Sync your eth1 consumer (begin now! this may take a while), arrange your favourite eth2 consumer, and cargo up your validators.
Take a look at the Launch Pad’s Eth2 Staker Checklist for the minimal steps it’s best to carry out earlier than genesis.
Monitor updates by genesis 👀
Though all eth2 shoppers have lower mainnet v1.0 releases, hold your eye on any developments by genesis. Within the occasion that your eth2 consumer cuts a launch 24 hours earlier than genesis, it is seemingly for an excellent purpose and you need to be on high of it.
Be part of your consumer’s discord, and if they’ve a mailing checklist, enroll!
Along with the client-specific assets, I extremely suggest becoming a member of the ethstaker discord. It is an amazing place to ask questions and share data, and I count on it to be very energetic by genesis. If there’s something it’s good to know, it should very seemingly floor there.
Thanks and congratulations
I needed to supply one other enormous thanks and congratulations to everybody who has helped make this a actuality. I could not be extra excited to see the Ethereum neighborhood lastly bootstrap this new proof-of-stake consensus mechanism.
Though there may be nonetheless a lot work to do, it is a good time to take a deep breath and smile.
Glad staking 🚀
