What started all the best way again on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a detailed: we’re pleased to announce the discharge of the ninth and final within the Ethereum Proof-of-Idea sequence. We invite the neighborhood to take part within the ongoing Proof-of-Idea IX testnet in our current launch, Olympic, made obtainable now.
The aim of Olympic is to reward individuals who attempt to check 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 will see how the community holds up below excessive ranges of load. On the identical time, software builders, information suppliers, exchanges, and customers are inspired to develop and deploy on the testnet and run nodes – and when you have a number of digital personal servers, spin up as many nodes as you’ll be able to.
Olympic will characteristic a complete prize fund of as much as 25,000 ether. There shall be 4 classes of prize in addition to a grand prize for the primary individual to create a considerable fork on the testnet.
The 4 classes of prize shall be Transaction Exercise, Digital Machine Utilization, Mining Prowess and Basic Punishment. Every class will embody a most important 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 taking part. Every of the classes shall be judged by Vitalik, Gavin and Jeff, seemingly with substantial assist from automated blockchain evaluation instruments. Along with the Ether, just like the bounty programme, all prize-winners shall be entitled to have their title immortalised within the Ethereum Genesis block. Please observe that to be thought-about 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 at the moment proving to be extremely steady at its present dimension 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 precise to shorten or lengthen it primarily based on technical concerns. After we deem that we’re prepared, we’ll 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 out there 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 whole variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best whole of fuel utilization
- The account that receives the best whole variety of transactions
- The account that contributes the best bloat (as measured in bytes) to the blockchain when it comes to transaction trie contents
- The account with the bottom deal with (when it comes to lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal) that sends no less than one transaction
- The 2 accounts that ship no less than one transaction whose addresses are closest to one another
Digital Machine Utilization
This contains exercise regarding 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 specific consumer 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 whole variety of messages
- The account that reverts the best whole quantity of fuel utilization
- The account that creates the contract with the bottom deal with (when it comes to lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal)
- The account that sends the transaction with the biggest (as measured in bytes) encoded receipt RLP
- The account that produces the biggest variety of transactions whose bloom is a (distinct) prime quantity
- A creator of a contract that accommodates, 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 regarding mining; miners shall be recognized by coinbase deal with. Examples of issues we would reward embody:
- The miner that produces the biggest block in the primary chain (as measured in bytes)
- The miner that contributes the biggest whole variety of bytes of block information to the primary chain
- The miner that mines the biggest variety of blocks in a row
- The miner that features probably the most transactions
- The miner that produces the block that takes the longest period of time for a specific consumer to course of
Basic 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 biggest variety of gadgets to contract storage
- The creator of the contract with the biggest code (externally-owned accounts solely)
- The creator of the contract with probably the most crammed gadgets in storage
- The creator of the contract that accommodates a key/worth pair with the best merkle tree depth (ie. the biggest variety of hash lookups earlier than attending to the worth)
- The creator of the contract that suicides whereas containing probably the most crammed gadgets in storage
- The creator of the contract that makes the biggest variety of consecutive storage updates such that the storage root at every step is a major quantity.
Observe that the above classes are in no way an exhaustive checklist of issues which are eligible for prizes. If you happen to do something exterior of the above that you just really feel deserves consideration, please electronic mail us.
The Grand Prize
A grand prize of no less than 5,000 ether shall 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 primary chain; one consumer should settle for the block with the opposite consumer rejecting it. Smaller prizes for forks between Go/C++ and Python can also be obtainable.
Good luck, and we stay up for seeing and listening to what you all give you!
– The ethereum core dev staff
