The EF is happy to announce the outcomes of the Medalla data challenge, an information hackathon centered on the Medalla testnet ✨
The immediate was open-ended: we requested for information instruments, visualizations, and analyses of testnet information; briefly, something that will assist the neighborhood make sense of all the info.
Over the course of six weeks we obtained 23 submissions from all kinds of groups. We have been happy to see prime quality submissions for each class.
Prizes are divided into three tiers primarily based on scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the neighborhood.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald — chaind, a device for extracting information from a working eth2 consumer and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this device was utilized by a number of different groups who submitted to the info problem.
- Pintail — a sequence of weblog posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) evaluating consumer efficiency, learning community habits, and discussing validator effectiveness.
🥈 Silver ($5k prize)
- Sid Shekhar and Elias Simos — a wide-ranging study of eth2 information.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — an extension of the ethereum-etl device to eth2, in addition to a BigQuery database dump of eth2 information.
- Nate McKervey of Splunk — a blog post and dashboard learning Ethereum community well being.
🥉 Bronze ($1k prize)
Trying ahead
The goals of this contest have been to welcome new minds into the Ethereum neighborhood, encourage them to pore over eth2 information, make it simpler to parse and analyse, and supply useful insights to each builders and the neighborhood at giant. To that finish, the competitors has been a terrific success, and we suspect that lots of the instruments and analyses produced might be helpful as mainnet goes dwell.
In the event you’re curious about choosing up the place any of those submissions left off, please take into account making use of for a staking community grant!
