The EF is happy to announce the outcomes of the Medalla knowledge problem, an information hackathon centered on the Medalla testnet ✨

The immediate was open-ended: we requested for knowledge instruments, visualizations, and analyses of testnet knowledge; briefly, something that might assist the neighborhood 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 top quality submissions for each class.

Prizes are divided into three tiers based mostly on scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the neighborhood.

🥇 Gold ($15k prize)

• Jim McDonald — chaind, a device for extracting knowledge from a working 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, finding out 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 put up and dashboard finding out Ethereum community well being.

🥉 Bronze ($1k prize)

Trying ahead

The goals of this contest have 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 helpful insights to each builders and the neighborhood at giant. To that finish, the competitors has been an important success, and we suspect that most of the instruments and analyses produced will probably be helpful as mainnet goes dwell.

In the event you’re inquisitive about selecting up the place any of those submissions left off, please contemplate making use of for a staking neighborhood grant!