tl;dr
This week the EF introduced the Eth2 Staking Neighborhood Grants spherical in an effort to assist a extra pleasant staking expertise.
That is an open name for proposals for grants that purpose to boost all issues staking — instruments, documentation, instructional sources, and so on.
Test 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’ll be able to sync up your favourite node to this testnet, you can’t 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 purpose to launch Pyrmont — a 100k validator testnet mimicking mainnet circumstances as carefully as attainable. As soon as Pyrmont is launched and steady, the testnet might be opened as much as the group. Pyrmont can function a last 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 (gradual) activation queue mechanics you would possibly expertise on mainnet. Please be a superb 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 might be supported at the least by means of 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 is able to possible embody quicker queue processing and a a lot increased 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 dwell together with the mainnet Launch Pad. The mainnet deposit contract lives on the following deal with — 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa. Please triple-check this deal with 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 to make sure you get your deposits included within the genesis block, you need 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.
Blissful staking 🚀