The EF is worked up to announce the outcomes of the Medalla data challenge, an information hackathon targeted on the Medalla testnet ✨
The immediate was open-ended: we requested for information instruments, visualizations, and analyses of testnet information; briefly, something that might assist the group make sense of all the information.
Over the course of six weeks we acquired 23 submissions from all kinds of groups. We have been happy to see prime quality submissions for each class.
Prizes are divided into three tiers primarily based on scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the group.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald — chaind, a device for extracting information from a operating eth2 shopper and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this device was utilized by a number of different groups who submitted to the information problem.
- Pintail — a collection of weblog posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) evaluating shopper efficiency, learning community conduct, and discussing validator effectiveness.
🥈 Silver ($5k prize)
- Sid Shekhar and Elias Simos — a wide-ranging study of eth2 information.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — an extension of the ethereum-etl device to eth2, in addition to a BigQuery database dump of eth2 information.
- Nate McKervey of Splunk — a blog post and dashboard learning Ethereum community well being.
🥉 Bronze ($1k prize)
Trying ahead
The goals of this contest have been to welcome new minds into the Ethereum group, encourage them to pore over eth2 information, make it simpler to parse and analyse, and supply beneficial insights to each builders and the group at giant. To that finish, the competitors has been an important success, and we suspect that most of the instruments and analyses produced will likely be helpful as mainnet goes dwell.
In case you’re desirous about selecting up the place any of those submissions left off, please take into account making use of for a staking community grant!