The EF is worked up to announce the outcomes of the Medalla information problem, an information 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 may 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 prime 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 software for extracting information from a operating eth2 shopper and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this software 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 shopper efficiency, finding out community conduct, 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 software to eth2, in addition to a BigQuery database dump of eth2 information.
- 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 information, make it simpler to parse and analyse, and supply useful insights to each builders and the group at massive. To that finish, the competitors has been an awesome success, and we suspect that lots of the instruments and analyses produced might be helpful as mainnet goes dwell.
If you happen to’re inquisitive about choosing up the place any of those submissions left off, please think about making use of for a staking group grant!
