The EF is happy to announce the outcomes of the Medalla data challenge, a knowledge hackathon targeted on the Medalla testnet ✨
The immediate was open-ended: we requested for knowledge instruments, visualizations, and analyses of testnet knowledge; in brief, something that will 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 software for extracting knowledge from a operating eth2 shopper and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this software was utilized by a number of different groups who submitted to the information problem.
- Pintail — a sequence 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 study of eth2 knowledge.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — an extension of the ethereum-etl software to eth2, in addition to a BigQuery database dump of eth2 knowledge.
- Nate McKervey of Splunk — a blog post 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 beneficial insights to each builders and the neighborhood at giant. To that finish, the competitors has been an ideal success, and we suspect that most of the instruments and analyses produced might be helpful as mainnet goes reside.
For those who’re fascinated with choosing up the place any of those submissions left off, please think about making use of for a staking community grant!
