The EF is worked up to announce the outcomes of the Medalla information problem, a knowledge hackathon targeted 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 group make sense of all the info.
Over the course of six weeks we acquired 23 submissions from all kinds of groups. We have been happy to see top quality submissions for each class.
Prizes are divided into three tiers primarily based on scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the group.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald — chaind, a instrument for extracting information from a operating eth2 consumer and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this instrument 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, finding out community habits, and discussing validator effectiveness.
🥈 Silver ($5k prize)
- Sid Shekhar and Elias Simos — a wide-ranging research of eth2 information.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — an extension of the ethereum-etl instrument to eth2, in addition to a BigQuery database dump of eth2 information.
- Nate McKervey of Splunk — a weblog submit and dashboard finding out Ethereum community well being.
🥉 Bronze ($1k prize)
Trying ahead
The goals of this contest have been to welcome new minds into the Ethereum group, encourage them to pore over eth2 information, make it simpler to parse and analyse, and supply worthwhile insights to each builders and the group at massive. To that finish, the competitors has been a fantastic success, and we suspect that most of the instruments and analyses produced will likely be helpful as mainnet goes stay.
For those who’re occupied with choosing up the place any of those submissions left off, please think about making use of for a staking group grant!