Since coming 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 dwell!
Though consumer improvement and UX proceed to be refined, we encourage the group to begin utilizing Kintsugi to familiarize themselves with Ethereum in a post-merge context. For utility 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 is dependent upon each layers is almost certainly to wish to adapt to assist The Merge.
We suggest most initiatives start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This fashion, adjustments can extra simply be included in future consumer and specification variations.
Utilizing Kintsugi
Try the Kintsugi touchdown web page for details about interacting with the Kintsugi community. You may 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 combos.
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 keep impartial API endpoints and peer connections to deal with their respective function. For a full overview of Ethereum’s post-merge structure, see this publish.
Help & Suggestions
The EthStaker group is offered to supply Kintsugi assist. When you’ve got questions, encounter errors or want clarifications, they’re completely satisfied to supply help within the #testingthemerge🐼 channel of their Discord server.
With the launch of Kintsugi, we hope the group will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Examine ou this listing of check eventualities for concepts on the way to carry your testing to the following stage.
For those who establish bugs or points with the specification, the very best place to lift these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. For those who’d slightly not use Discord, different venues to lift such points are the specification repositories (consensus, execution, APIs), and Ethereum Magicians ✨.
Subsequent Steps
The Kintsugi testnet offers the group a chance to experiment with post-merge Ethereum and start to establish any points. As soon as suggestions has been included into the consumer sofware and the specs, a remaining collection 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 secure, subsequent up is Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof of stake 🎊.
For these desirous to observe the progress at a extra granular stage, a mainnet readiness guidelines is publicly out there and often up to date.
See you on Kintsugi 🍵!
