What started all the way in which again on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a detailed: we’re pleased to announce the discharge of the ninth and final within the Ethereum Proof-of-Idea sequence. We invite the neighborhood to take part within the ongoing Proof-of-Idea IX testnet in our current launch, Olympic, made out there now.
The aim of Olympic is to reward individuals who attempt to check the bounds of the Ethereum blockchain in the course of the pre-release interval, spamming the community with transactions and doing loopy issues with the state, in order that we will see how the community holds up below excessive ranges of load. On the identical time, software builders, information suppliers, exchanges, and customers are inspired to develop and deploy on the testnet and run nodes – and in case you have a number of digital non-public servers, spin up as many nodes as you may.
Olympic will function a complete prize fund of as much as 25,000 ether. There shall be 4 classes of prize in addition to a grand prize for the primary individual to create a considerable fork on the testnet.
The 4 classes of prize shall be Transaction Exercise, Digital Machine Utilization, Mining Prowess and Common Punishment. Every class will embody a fundamental prize of two,500 ether, in addition to a number of smaller prizes at 100 – 1,000 ether and probably tiny rewards of 0.1-5 ether merely for taking part. Every of the classes shall be judged by Vitalik, Gavin and Jeff, seemingly with substantial assist from automated blockchain evaluation instruments. Along with the Ether, just like the bounty programme, all prize-winners shall be entitled to have their title immortalised within the Ethereum Genesis block. Please word that to be thought of for a prize, ship an e-mail describing a declare to olympic@ethereum.org.
That is additionally the final part of the Ethereum improvement course of earlier than the Frontier launch, because the community is at the moment proving to be extremely steady at its present measurement of 20-100 nodes, all main purchasers have been staying in consensus and we’re approaching code freeze pending testing and auditing inputs. It’s anticipated to final near 14 days, although we reserve the appropriate to shorten or lengthen it based mostly on technical concerns. Once we deem that we’re prepared, we are going to present a 48 hour countdown for the Frontier 1.0 launch.
Binaries and supply can be found right here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v0.9.18
A piece-in-progress information to Frontier is offered right here: http://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/
Transaction Exercise
This consists of exercise associated to sending and receiving transactions. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The account that sends the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best complete of fuel utilization
- The account that receives the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best bloat (as measured in bytes) to the blockchain when it comes to transaction trie contents
- The account with the bottom handle (when it comes to lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal) that sends not less than one transaction
- The 2 accounts that ship not less than one transaction whose addresses are closest to one another
Digital Machine Utilization
This consists of exercise regarding utilizing the digital machine. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode inside a single transaction
- The account that sends the only transaction that takes the longest for a specific consumer to execute
- The account that sends the only transaction with the best ratio of time to execute per unit fuel consumed
- The account that receives the best complete variety of messages
- The account that reverts the best complete quantity of fuel utilization
- The account that creates the contract with the bottom handle (when it comes to lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal)
- The account that sends the transaction with the most important (as measured in bytes) encoded receipt RLP
- The account that produces the most important variety of transactions whose bloom is a (distinct) prime quantity
- A creator of a contract that incorporates, for instance, a sudoku solver, taking an array of 81 values as enter and outputting the array of 81 values similar to a solved sudoku
Mining Prowess
This consists of exercise regarding mining; miners shall be recognized by coinbase handle. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The miner that produces the most important block in the primary chain (as measured in bytes)
- The miner that contributes the most important complete variety of bytes of block information to the primary chain
- The miner that mines the most important variety of blocks in a row
- The miner that features essentially the most transactions
- The miner that produces the block that takes the longest period of time for a specific consumer to course of
Common Punishment
This consists of mucking round with the State in loopy methods, getting contracts to do loopy issues. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The sender/miner of the transaction/block that provides the most important variety of objects to contract storage
- The creator of the contract with the most important code (externally-owned accounts solely)
- The creator of the contract with essentially the most stuffed objects in storage
- The creator of the contract that incorporates a key/worth pair with the best merkle tree depth (ie. the most important variety of hash lookups earlier than attending to the worth)
- The creator of the contract that suicides whereas containing essentially the most stuffed objects in storage
- The creator of the contract that makes the most important variety of consecutive storage updates such that the storage root at every step is a main quantity.
Notice that the above classes are under no circumstances an exhaustive checklist of issues which are eligible for prizes. If you happen to do something outdoors of the above that you just really feel deserves consideration, please e mail us.
The Grand Prize
A grand prize of not less than 5,000 ether shall be shared between the miner(s) who handle to create a considerable fork between the Go and C++ purchasers. The fork have to be on the primary chain; one consumer should settle for the block with the opposite consumer rejecting it. Smaller prizes for forks between Go/C++ and Python may additionally be out there.
Good luck, and we sit up for seeing and listening to what you all give you!
– The ethereum core dev staff
