The EF is happy to announce the outcomes of the Medalla knowledge problem, a knowledge hackathon targeted on the Medalla testnet ✨
The immediate was open-ended: we requested for knowledge instruments, visualizations, and analyses of testnet knowledge; briefly, something that will assist the group make sense of all the info.
Over the course of six weeks we obtained 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 based mostly on scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the group.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald — chaind, a device for extracting knowledge from a operating eth2 shopper and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this device was utilized by a number of different groups who submitted to the info problem.
- Pintail — a collection 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 research of eth2 knowledge.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — an extension of the ethereum-etl device to eth2, in addition to a BigQuery database dump of eth2 knowledge.
- Nate McKervey of Splunk — a weblog put up and dashboard finding out Ethereum community well being.
🥉 Bronze ($1k prize)
Wanting ahead
The goals of this contest have been to welcome new minds into the Ethereum group, encourage them to pore over eth2 knowledge, make it simpler to parse and analyse, and supply worthwhile insights to each builders and the group at giant. To that finish, the competitors has been an amazing success, and we suspect that lots of the instruments and analyses produced will likely be helpful as mainnet goes reside.
If you happen to’re desirous about selecting up the place any of those submissions left off, please take into account making use of for a staking group grant!
