What started all the way in which again on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a detailed: we’re joyful to announce the discharge of the ninth and final within the Ethereum Proof-of-Idea sequence. We invite the neighborhood to take part within the ongoing Proof-of-Idea IX testnet in our current launch, Olympic, made available now.
The aim of Olympic is to reward individuals who attempt to check the bounds of the Ethereum blockchain throughout the pre-release interval, spamming the community with transactions and doing loopy issues with the state, in order that we will see how the community holds up beneath excessive ranges of load. On the identical time, software builders, information suppliers, exchanges, and customers are inspired to develop and deploy on the testnet and run nodes – and in case you have a number of digital personal servers, spin up as many nodes as you may.
Olympic will characteristic a complete prize fund of as much as 25,000 ether. There will likely be 4 classes of prize in addition to a grand prize for the primary individual to create a considerable fork on the testnet.
The 4 classes of prize will likely be Transaction Exercise, Digital Machine Utilization, Mining Prowess and Normal Punishment. Every class will embrace a primary prize of two,500 ether, in addition to a number of smaller prizes at 100 – 1,000 ether and probably tiny rewards of 0.1-5 ether merely for collaborating. Every of the classes will likely be judged by Vitalik, Gavin and Jeff, probably with substantial assist from automated blockchain evaluation instruments. Along with the Ether, just like the bounty programme, all prize-winners will likely be entitled to have their title immortalised within the Ethereum Genesis block. Please observe that to be thought-about for a prize, ship an e-mail describing a declare to olympic@ethereum.org.
That is additionally the final part of the Ethereum growth course of earlier than the Frontier launch, because the community is at the moment proving to be extremely secure at its present dimension of 20-100 nodes, all main shoppers have been staying in consensus and we’re approaching code freeze pending testing and auditing inputs. It’s anticipated to final near 14 days, although we reserve the best to shorten or lengthen it primarily based on technical concerns. Once we deem that we’re prepared, we are going to present a 48 hour countdown for the Frontier 1.0 launch.
Binaries and supply can be found right here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v0.9.18
A piece-in-progress information to Frontier is obtainable right here: http://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/
Transaction Exercise
This consists of exercise associated to sending and receiving transactions. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The account that sends the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best complete of gasoline utilization
- The account that receives the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best bloat (as measured in bytes) to the blockchain when it comes to transaction trie contents
- The account with the bottom deal with (when it comes to lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal) that sends no less than one transaction
- The 2 accounts that ship no less than one transaction whose addresses are closest to one another
Digital Machine Utilization
This consists of exercise regarding utilizing the digital machine. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode inside a single transaction
- The account that sends the only transaction that takes the longest for a selected consumer to execute
- The account that sends the only transaction with the best ratio of time to execute per unit gasoline consumed
- The account that receives the best complete variety of messages
- The account that reverts the best complete quantity of gasoline utilization
- The account that creates the contract with the bottom deal with (when it comes to lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal)
- The account that sends the transaction with the biggest (as measured in bytes) encoded receipt RLP
- The account that produces the biggest variety of transactions whose bloom is a (distinct) prime quantity
- A creator of a contract that incorporates, for instance, a sudoku solver, taking an array of 81 values as enter and outputting the array of 81 values equivalent to a solved sudoku
Mining Prowess
This consists of exercise regarding mining; miners will likely be recognized by coinbase deal with. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The miner that produces the biggest block in the principle chain (as measured in bytes)
- The miner that contributes the biggest complete variety of bytes of block information to the principle chain
- The miner that mines the biggest variety of blocks in a row
- The miner that features essentially the most transactions
- The miner that produces the block that takes the longest period of time for a selected consumer to course of
Normal Punishment
This consists of mucking round with the State in loopy methods, getting contracts to do loopy issues. Examples of issues we’d reward embrace:
- The sender/miner of the transaction/block that provides the biggest variety of gadgets to contract storage
- The creator of the contract with the biggest code (externally-owned accounts solely)
- The creator of the contract with essentially the most stuffed gadgets in storage
- The creator of the contract that incorporates a key/worth pair with the best merkle tree depth (ie. the biggest variety of hash lookups earlier than attending to the worth)
- The creator of the contract that suicides whereas containing essentially the most stuffed gadgets in storage
- The creator of the contract that makes the biggest variety of consecutive storage updates such that the storage root at every step is a first-rate quantity.
Be aware that the above classes are in no way an exhaustive record of issues which can be eligible for prizes. For those who do something outdoors of the above that you just really feel deserves consideration, please e mail us.
The Grand Prize
A grand prize of no less than 5,000 ether will likely be shared between the miner(s) who handle to create a considerable fork between the Go and C++ shoppers. The fork should be on the principle chain; one consumer should settle for the block with the opposite consumer rejecting it. Smaller prizes for forks between Go/C++ and Python may be out there.
Good luck, and we sit up for seeing and listening to what you all give you!
– The ethereum core dev crew
