Since getting back from the Amphora merge workshop, consumer groups have been onerous at work implementing the newest variations of merge specs and testing them on devnets.
After 4 ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived public testnet, is now reside!
Though consumer growth and UX proceed to be refined, we encourage the neighborhood to begin utilizing Kintsugi to familiarize themselves with Ethereum in a post-merge context. For software builders, as beforehand defined, not a lot will change. Tooling which solely interacts with both the consensus or execution layer can be largely unaffected. Infrastructure which will depend on each layers is almost certainly to want to adapt to assist The Merge.
We suggest most tasks start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This fashion, modifications can extra simply be integrated in future consumer and specification variations.
Utilizing Kintsugi
Take a look at the Kintsugi touchdown web 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 consumer mixtures.
As a reminder, post-merge, a full Ethereum consumer is comprised of each a Beacon / Consensus node and an Execution engine (dealt with by an current “Eth1” consumer). Each layers preserve unbiased API endpoints and peer connections to deal with their respective position. For a full overview of Ethereum’s post-merge structure, see this put up.
Help & Suggestions
The EthStaker neighborhood is offered to supply Kintsugi assist. If in case you have 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 neighborhood will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Verify ou this checklist of check situations for concepts on tips on how to convey your testing to the subsequent degree.
When you establish bugs or points with the specification, one of the best place to boost these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. When you’d relatively not use Discord, different venues to boost such points are the specification repositories (consensus, execution, APIs), and Ethereum Magicians ✨.
Subsequent Steps
The Kintsugi testnet supplies the neighborhood a possibility to experiment with post-merge Ethereum and start to establish any points. As soon as suggestions has been integrated into the consumer sofware and the specs, a last sequence of testnets will likely be launched. In parallel, testing efforts will proceed ramping up.
After this, current long-lived testnets will run via The Merge. As soon as these have upgraded and are steady, subsequent up is Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof of stake 🎊.
For these wanting to observe the progress at a extra granular degree, a mainnet readiness guidelines is publicly accessible and frequently up to date.
See you on Kintsugi 🍵!
