Since getting back from the Amphora merge workshop, shopper groups have been onerous 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 dwell!
Though shopper 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 utility builders, as beforehand defined, not a lot will change. Tooling which solely interacts with both the consensus or execution layer can be largely unaffected. Infrastructure which is determined by each layers is more than likely to want to adapt to help The Merge.
We advocate most initiatives start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This manner, adjustments can extra simply be included in future shopper and specification variations.
Utilizing Kintsugi
Try the Kintsugi touchdown web 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 mirror supported consensus <> execution layer shopper mixtures.
As a reminder, post-merge, a full Ethereum shopper is comprised of each a Beacon / Consensus node and an Execution engine (dealt with by an present “Eth1” shopper). 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 publish.
Assist & Suggestions
The EthStaker group is obtainable to supply Kintsugi help. In case you have questions, encounter errors or want clarifications, they’re blissful 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 checklist of take a look at eventualities for concepts on learn how to deliver your testing to the subsequent stage.
In the event you establish bugs or points with the specification, the most effective place to boost these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. In the event you’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 supplies 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 shopper sofware and the specs, a last sequence of testnets can be launched. In parallel, testing efforts will proceed ramping up.
After this, present 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 guidelines is publicly obtainable and often up to date.
See you on Kintsugi 🍵!