What started all the way in which again on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to an in depth: we’re completely happy to announce the discharge of the ninth and final within the Ethereum Proof-of-Idea sequence. We invite the group to take part within the ongoing Proof-of-Idea IX testnet in our current launch, Olympic, made available now.
The aim of Olympic is to reward individuals who attempt to take a look at the boundaries of the Ethereum blockchain through the pre-release interval, spamming the community with transactions and doing loopy issues with the state, in order that we are able to see how the community holds up below excessive ranges of load. On the similar time, utility builders, knowledge suppliers, exchanges, and customers are inspired to develop and deploy on the testnet and run nodes – and you probably have a number of digital personal servers, spin up as many nodes as you may.
Olympic will characteristic a complete prize fund of as much as 25,000 ether. There will likely be 4 classes of prize in addition to a grand prize for the primary particular person to create a considerable fork on the testnet.
The 4 classes of prize will likely be Transaction Exercise, Digital Machine Utilization, Mining Prowess and Normal Punishment. Every class will embody a fundamental prize of two,500 ether, in addition to a number of smaller prizes at 100 – 1,000 ether and probably tiny rewards of 0.1-5 ether merely for collaborating. Every of the classes will likely be judged by Vitalik, Gavin and Jeff, doubtless with substantial assist from automated blockchain evaluation instruments. Along with the Ether, just like the bounty programme, all prize-winners will likely be entitled to have their title immortalised within the Ethereum Genesis block. Please be aware that to be thought of for a prize, ship an e-mail describing a declare to olympic@ethereum.org.
That is additionally the final section of the Ethereum improvement course of earlier than the Frontier launch, because the community is presently proving to be extremely steady at its present measurement of 20-100 nodes, all main shoppers have been staying in consensus and we’re approaching code freeze pending testing and auditing inputs. It’s anticipated to final near 14 days, although we reserve the fitting to shorten or lengthen it primarily based on technical concerns. After we deem that we’re prepared, we are going to present a 48 hour countdown for the Frontier 1.0 launch.
Binaries and supply can be found right here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v0.9.18
A piece-in-progress information to Frontier is accessible right here: http://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/
Transaction Exercise
This contains exercise associated to sending and receiving transactions. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The account that sends the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best complete of fuel utilization
- The account that receives the best complete variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best bloat (as measured in bytes) to the blockchain by way of transaction trie contents
- The account with the bottom tackle (by way of lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal) that sends at the least one transaction
- The 2 accounts that ship at the least one transaction whose addresses are closest to one another
Digital Machine Utilization
This contains exercise referring to utilizing the digital machine. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode
- The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode inside a single transaction
- The account that sends the one transaction that takes the longest for a selected shopper to execute
- The account that sends the one transaction with the best ratio of time to execute per unit fuel consumed
- The account that receives the best complete variety of messages
- The account that reverts the best complete quantity of fuel utilization
- The account that creates the contract with the bottom tackle (by way of lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal)
- The account that sends the transaction with the most important (as measured in bytes) encoded receipt RLP
- The account that produces the most important variety of transactions whose bloom is a (distinct) prime quantity
- A creator of a contract that comprises, for instance, a sudoku solver, taking an array of 81 values as enter and outputting the array of 81 values comparable to a solved sudoku
Mining Prowess
This contains exercise referring to mining; miners will likely be recognized by coinbase tackle. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The miner that produces the most important block in the principle chain (as measured in bytes)
- The miner that contributes the most important complete variety of bytes of block knowledge to the principle chain
- The miner that mines the most important variety of blocks in a row
- The miner that features essentially the most transactions
- The miner that produces the block that takes the longest period of time for a selected shopper to course of
Normal Punishment
This contains mucking round with the State in loopy methods, getting contracts to do loopy issues. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The sender/miner of the transaction/block that provides the most important variety of objects to contract storage
- The creator of the contract with the most important code (externally-owned accounts solely)
- The creator of the contract with essentially the most crammed objects in storage
- The creator of the contract that comprises a key/worth pair with the best merkle tree depth (ie. the most important variety of hash lookups earlier than attending to the worth)
- The creator of the contract that suicides whereas containing essentially the most crammed objects in storage
- The creator of the contract that makes the most important variety of consecutive storage updates such that the storage root at every step is a chief quantity.
Observe that the above classes are under no circumstances an exhaustive checklist of issues which might be eligible for prizes. If you happen to do something exterior of the above that you simply really feel deserves consideration, please e mail us.
The Grand Prize
A grand prize of at the least 5,000 ether will likely be shared between the miner(s) who handle to create a considerable fork between the Go and C++ shoppers. The fork have to be on the principle chain; one shopper should settle for the block with the opposite shopper rejecting it. Smaller prizes for forks between Go/C++ and Python may be accessible.
Good luck, and we stay up for seeing and listening to what you all give you!
– The ethereum core dev staff