Since getting back from the Amphora merge workshop, shopper groups have been exhausting 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 shopper improvement and UX proceed to be refined, we encourage the group to begin 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 relies on each layers is more than likely to wish to adapt to help The Merge.
We advocate most tasks start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This manner, modifications can extra simply be integrated in future shopper 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 mirror supported consensus <> execution layer shopper combos.
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 current “Eth1” shopper). Each layers preserve 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 accessible to supply Kintsugi help. When you’ve got 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 group will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Examine ou this record of test scenarios for concepts on convey your testing to the following degree.
In the event you determine bugs or points with the specification, the perfect place to lift these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. In the event you’d quite not use Discord, different venues to lift 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 determine any points. As soon as suggestions has been integrated into the shopper sofware and the specs, a ultimate sequence of testnets will probably be launched. In parallel, testing efforts will proceed ramping up.
After this, current long-lived testnets will run by way of The Merge. As soon as these have upgraded and are secure, subsequent up is Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof of stake 🎊.
For these desperate to comply with the progress at a extra granular degree, a mainnet readiness checklist is publicly obtainable and recurrently up to date.
See you on Kintsugi 🍵!