Confirmation number 34 | Ethereum Foundation Blog
tl;dr
- Kiln🧱🔥 has been uploaded, Check it
- #TestingTheMerge is in full swing. Do your part and get involved!
Kiln🧱🔥 is up, check it out
A week ago, the Kiln🧱🔥 testnet underwent a merge transition to evolve from a PoW testnet to a fully functional PoS testnet.
When you run a validator on the mainnet, Now it’s time to test your post-merge settings.. jump in Kiln landing page And dig into it.
Earnestly. It’s time.
#TestingTheMerge is in full swing. participate!
The transition from PoW to PoS at Kiln was trouble-free. Due to an encoding error, Prysm Invalid block generationSome running clients encountered other errors related to synchronization during the transition.
Even though the client is now fully functional and almost production ready, minor software bugs are still popping up here and there. This isn’t a fundamental issue with the core specs and research, but it points to something we’ve been saying for quite some time. This means that security and testing will be the long tail that defines the ultimate Merge release date.
To that end, our client teams, security researchers, and testers are doubling down on testing on all fronts over the next four-plus weeks as we prepare for a public testnet upgrade. These efforts include: hive test, kurtosis testnet build, antithesis Coverage-guided network fuzzing, Goerli and mainnet shadow forking, manual code review, stack-wide fuzzing, enhanced consensus testing, and more!
On the purging front, we want to give a shout out. Block Demon Thank you for providing $900,000 in IBM Cloud credits for your merge testing efforts! Fuzzing is about putting more resources into a problem than your adversary, so with these credits we’re confident we’ll be able to eliminate any bugs we can find. Thank you 🙏
participate!
The #TestingTheMerge effort is in full swing. Running validators in Kiln, testing developer workflows, writing tutorials, improving documentation, creating new exotic fuzzers – it all counts as the 👏last👏bit👏!
This is the largest blockchain upgrade ever. period. So do your part to ensure success. Eth R&D discrepancy Merge #testing in the channel 🚀
