The EF is happy to announce the outcomes of the Medalla data challenge, an information hackathon centered on the Medalla testnet ✨
The immediate was open-ended: we requested for information instruments, visualizations, and analyses of testnet information; briefly, something that may assist the group make sense of all the info.
Over the course of six weeks we acquired 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 based mostly on scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the group.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald — chaind, a instrument for extracting information from a working eth2 shopper and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this instrument was utilized by a number of different groups who submitted to the info problem.
- Pintail — a sequence 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 instrument 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)
Wanting ahead
The goals of this contest had 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 precious insights to each builders and the group at massive. To that finish, the competitors has been a fantastic success, and we suspect that lots of the instruments and analyses produced will likely be helpful as mainnet goes reside.
If you happen to’re all in favour of choosing up the place any of those submissions left off, please contemplate making use of for a staking community grant!
