Since coming back from the Amphora merge workshop, consumer groups have been laborious at work implementing the most recent variations of merge specs and testing them on devnets.
After 4 ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived public testnet, is now reside!
Though consumer improvement and UX proceed to be refined, we encourage the group 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 be largely unaffected. Infrastructure which relies on each layers is probably to want to adapt to assist The Merge.
We suggest most tasks start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This fashion, modifications 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 mirror supported consensus <> execution layer consumer mixtures.
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 keep impartial 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 group is obtainable to supply Kintsugi assist. You probably have questions, encounter errors or want clarifications, they’re completely satisfied to supply help within the #testingthemerge🐼 channel of their Discord server.
With the launch of Kintsugi, we hope the group will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Examine ou this record of test scenarios for concepts on the right way to carry your testing to the following stage.
If you happen to establish bugs or points with the specification, one of the best place to lift these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. If you happen to’d reasonably not use Discord, different venues to lift such points are the specification repositories (consensus, execution, APIs), and Ethereum Magicians ✨.
Subsequent Steps
The Kintsugi testnet gives the group a possibility to experiment with post-merge Ethereum and start to establish any points. As soon as suggestions has been included into the consumer sofware and the specs, a remaining sequence of testnets shall be launched. In parallel, testing efforts will proceed ramping up.
After this, current long-lived testnets will run by means of The Merge. As soon as these have upgraded and are steady, subsequent up is Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof of stake 🎊.
For these desperate to observe the progress at a extra granular stage, a mainnet readiness checklist is publicly out there and repeatedly up to date.
See you on Kintsugi 🍵!
