eth2 quick update no. 20

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 goal to reinforce all issues staking — instruments, documentation, academic assets, 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, shopper builders led by protolambda launched the Toledo devnet — a 16k validator testnet with v1.0 mainnet configuration. Though you possibly can sync up your favourite node to this testnet, you can not make any validator deposits on account of the usage of a modified, permissioned deposit contract. Toledo is for preliminary v1.0 testing and continued developer experimentation.

Subsequent week, we goal to launch Pyrmont — a 100k validator testnet mimicking mainnet circumstances as carefully as doable. As soon as Pyrmont is launched and secure, the testnet shall be opened as much as the group. Pyrmont can function a remaining 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 would possibly expertise on mainnet. Please be a great citizen and solely make one or two validator deposits. This can hold the queue occasions cheap within the subsequent few weeks and permit for a productive testbed for all customers.

Pyrmont shall be supported at the least via eth2 mainnet genesis. From there, we are going to contemplate the choices out there to assemble a long-term testnet with higher stability and UX properties. This might probably embrace quicker queue processing and a a lot larger minimal ejection stability.

However till then, take pleasure in Pyrmont!

Mainnet deposits

In case you did not catch it final week, the eth2 mainnet deposit contract is reside 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 anyplace.

A fast reminder — though the MIN_GENESIS_TIME is December 1st, 12pm UTC, there’s a 7-day GENESIS_DELAY. Which means that to make sure you get your deposits included within the genesis block, you have to 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.

Completely happy staking 🚀