Since coming back from the Amphora merge workshop, consumer groups have been exhausting at work implementing the newest variations of merge specs and testing them on devnets.
After 4 ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived public testnet, is now dwell!
Though consumer growth and UX proceed to be refined, we encourage the neighborhood to begin utilizing Kintsugi to familiarize themselves with Ethereum in a post-merge context. For utility builders, as previously explained, not a lot will change. Tooling which solely interacts with both the consensus or execution layer can also be largely unaffected. Infrastructure which is dependent upon each layers is most definitely to want to adapt to help The Merge.
We advocate most tasks start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This manner, adjustments can extra simply be included in future consumer and specification variations.
Utilizing Kintsugi
Take a look at the Kintsugi landing page for details about interacting with the Kintsugi community. You may discover community settings, a faucet, a block explorer and a JSON-RPC endpoint, together with documentation up to date to replicate supported consensus execution layer consumer combos.
As a reminder, post-merge, a full Ethereum consumer is comprised of each a Beacon / Consensus node and an Execution engine (dealt with by an current “Eth1” consumer). Each layers preserve impartial API endpoints and peer connections to deal with their respective position. For a full overview of Ethereum’s post-merge structure, see this post.
Help & Suggestions
The EthStaker neighborhood is obtainable to offer Kintsugi help. In case you have questions, encounter errors or want clarifications, they’re comfortable to offer help within the #testingthemerge🐼 channel of their Discord server.
With the launch of Kintsugi, we hope the neighborhood will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Examine ou this record of test scenarios for concepts on easy methods to deliver your testing to the following degree.
If you happen to determine bugs or points with the specification, the perfect place to boost these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. If you happen to’d relatively not use Discord, different venues to boost such points are the specification repositories (consensus, execution, APIs), and Ethereum Magicians ✨.
Subsequent Steps
The Kintsugi testnet offers the neighborhood a possibility to experiment with post-merge Ethereum and start to determine any points. As soon as suggestions has been included into the consumer sofware and the specs, a remaining collection of testnets will probably be launched. In parallel, testing efforts will proceed ramping up.
After this, current long-lived testnets will run via The Merge. As soon as these have upgraded and are steady, subsequent up is Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof of stake 🎊.
For these desirous to observe the progress at a extra granular degree, a mainnet readiness checklist is publicly obtainable and repeatedly up to date.
See you on Kintsugi 🍵!
