The EF is worked up to announce the outcomes of the Medalla knowledge problem, an information hackathon targeted on the Medalla testnet ✨
The immediate was open-ended: we requested for knowledge instruments, visualizations, and analyses of testnet knowledge; briefly, something that may assist the neighborhood make sense of all the information.
Over the course of six weeks we obtained 23 submissions from all kinds of groups. We had 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 neighborhood.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald — chaind, a device for extracting knowledge from a working eth2 consumer 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 consumer efficiency, learning community habits, and discussing validator effectiveness.
🥈 Silver ($5k prize)
- Sid Shekhar and Elias Simos — a wide-ranging research of eth2 knowledge.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — an extension of the ethereum-etl device to eth2, in addition to a BigQuery database dump of eth2 knowledge.
- Nate McKervey of Splunk — a weblog submit and dashboard learning Ethereum community well being.
🥉 Bronze ($1k prize)
Trying ahead
The goals of this contest had been to welcome new minds into the Ethereum neighborhood, encourage them to pore over eth2 knowledge, make it simpler to parse and analyse, and supply invaluable insights to each builders and the neighborhood at massive. To that finish, the competitors has been an amazing success, and we suspect that most of the instruments and analyses produced shall be helpful as mainnet goes stay.
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