Finalized no. 34 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

tl;dr

• Kiln🧱🔥 is up, check it out
• #TestingTheMerge is in full swing. Do your half, get entangled!

Kiln🧱🔥 is up, test it out

One week in the past, the Kiln🧱🔥 testnet went via the Merge transition to evolve from a PoW testnet to a totally purposeful PoS testnet.

Should you run validators on Mainnet, now’s the time to check your post-merge setups. Bounce into the Kiln landing page and dig in.

Significantly. It is time.

#TestingTheMerge is in full swing. Become involved!

The transition from PoW to PoS on Kiln was not with out situation. Resulting from an encoding error, Prysm was producing invalid blocks, whereas among the execution shoppers had different errors associated to sync in the course of the transition.

Though shoppers at the moment are function full and nearing production-readiness, minor software program bugs are nonetheless popping up right here and there. Whereas these usually are not elementary points with the core specs and analysis, this factors to one thing we have been saying for fairly a very long time — safety and testing would be the lengthy tail defining the final word Merge launch date.

To this finish, consumer groups, safety researchers, and testers are doubling down on testing on all fronts for the subsequent 4+ weeks in preparation for upgrading the general public testnets. These efforts embrace hive testing, Kurtosis testnet builds, Antithesis protection guided community fuzzing, shadow-forking Goerli and Mainnet, guide code evaluate, fuzzing throughout the stack, enhancing consensus assessments, and extra!

On the fuzzing entrance, we wish to give an enormous shout-out to Blockdaemon for offering the Merge testing effort with $900k in IBM Cloud credit! Fuzzing is all about throwing extra assets on the drawback than your adversary, so with these credit we’re assured that we will shake out all of the bugs there are to search out. Thanks 🙏

Become involved!

The #TestingTheMerge effort is in full power. Whether or not or not it’s working a validator on Kiln, testing your developer workflow, writing a tutorial, bettering documentation, or creating a brand new unique fuzzer, each👏final👏bit👏counts👏!

That is the biggest blockchain improve ever. Interval. So do your half to make it successful — be part of us within the Eth R&D Discord within the Merge #testing channel 🚀