The EF is happy 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; in brief, something that might assist the group make sense of all the information.
Over the course of six weeks we obtained 23 submissions from all kinds of groups. We had been happy to see prime quality submissions for each class.
Prizes are divided into three tiers based mostly on scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the group.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald — chaind, a instrument for extracting information from a operating eth2 shopper and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this instrument was utilized by a number of different groups who submitted to the information problem.
- Pintail — a sequence of weblog posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) evaluating shopper efficiency, finding out community habits, and discussing validator effectiveness.
🥈 Silver ($5k prize)
- Sid Shekhar and Elias Simos — a wide-ranging examine 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)
Wanting ahead
The goals of this contest had 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 invaluable insights to each builders and the group at giant. To that finish, the competitors has been a terrific success, and we suspect that most of the instruments and analyses produced will probably be helpful as mainnet goes stay.
In the event you’re keen on selecting up the place any of those submissions left off, please contemplate making use of for a staking group grant!
