Since getting back from the Amphora merge workshop, consumer groups have been laborious 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 start out utilizing Kintsugi to familiarize themselves with Ethereum in a post-merge context. For software 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 depends upon each layers is most probably to wish to adapt to assist The Merge.
We suggest most tasks start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This fashion, adjustments can extra simply be integrated in future consumer and specification variations.
Utilizing Kintsugi
Try the Kintsugi landing page for details about interacting with the Kintsugi community. You will 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 present “Eth1” consumer). Each layers preserve unbiased API endpoints and peer connections to deal with their respective function. For a full overview of Ethereum’s post-merge structure, see this post.
Help & Suggestions
The EthStaker neighborhood is accessible to supply Kintsugi assist. If in case you have questions, encounter errors or want clarifications, they’re completely happy to supply help within the #testingthemerge🐼 channel of their Discord server.
With the launch of Kintsugi, we hope the neighborhood will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Test ou this checklist of test scenarios for concepts on the best way to convey your testing to the subsequent stage.
In case you determine bugs or points with the specification, the most effective place to lift these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. In case you’d moderately not use Discord, different venues to lift 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 integrated into the consumer sofware and the specs, a ultimate sequence of testnets will likely be launched. In parallel, testing efforts will proceed ramping up.
After this, present long-lived testnets will run by The Merge. As soon as these have upgraded and are secure, subsequent up is Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof of stake 🎊.
For these desirous to comply with the progress at a extra granular stage, a mainnet readiness checklist is publicly out there and commonly up to date.
See you on Kintsugi 🍵!
