Saying the Kintsugi Merge Testnet

Since getting back from the Amphora merge workshop, consumer groups have been laborious at work implementing the most recent variations of merge specs and testing them on devnets.

After 4 ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived public testnet, is now reside!

Though consumer improvement and UX proceed to be refined, we encourage the neighborhood 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 will depend on each layers is probably to wish to adapt to help The Merge.

We advocate most initiatives start testing and prototyping on Kintsugi to floor any potential points quickly. This manner, adjustments can extra simply be integrated in future consumer and specification variations.

Utilizing Kintsugi

Take a look at the Kintsugi touchdown web page for details about interacting with the Kintsugi community. You’ll discover community settings, a faucet, a block explorer and a JSON-RPC endpoint, together with documentation up to date to replicate supported consensus <> execution layer consumer mixtures.

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 present “Eth1” consumer). Each layers keep impartial API endpoints and peer connections to deal with their respective position. For a full overview of Ethereum’s post-merge structure, see this publish.

Help & Suggestions

The EthStaker neighborhood is on the market to offer Kintsugi help. You probably have questions, encounter errors or want clarifications, they’re completely happy to offer help within the #testingthemerge🐼 channel of their Discord server.

With the launch of Kintsugi, we hope the neighborhood will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Test ou this checklist of check situations for concepts on methods to deliver your testing to the subsequent stage.

Should you establish bugs or points with the specification, one of the best place to lift these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. Should you’d fairly not use Discord, different venues to lift such points are the specification repositories (consensus, execution, APIs), and Ethereum Magicians ✨.

Subsequent Steps

The Kintsugi testnet supplies the neighborhood a possibility to experiment with post-merge Ethereum and start to establish any points. As soon as suggestions has been integrated into the consumer sofware and the specs, a ultimate sequence of testnets shall be launched. In parallel, testing efforts will proceed ramping up.

After this, present long-lived testnets will run by way of The Merge. As soon as these have upgraded and are secure, subsequent up is Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof of stake 🎊.

For these wanting to observe the progress at a extra granular stage, a mainnet readiness guidelines is publicly accessible and repeatedly up to date.

See you on Kintsugi 🍵!