Thank you to our friends at Sigma Prime for allowing us to use their RFP structure and much of the content in this document. We owe you guys a round of beers! 🍺 Introduction Prysmatic Labs is an independent team of blockchain engineers with a strong background and passion for scaling…

Our biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on the Ethereum Serenity roadmap. Devcon Recap Prylabs team at Devcon Some of us at Prysmatic made it over to Osaka, Japan for Devcon V, the world’s biggest Ethereum conference. As always, the content was stellar, with so many of the highest quality talks full of…

Our biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on the Ethereum 2.0 roadmap Eth2 Research Updates Execution environments and EWASM for Eth 2.0 We’ve begun to estimate the work needed for Prysm to operate in a phase 2 execution environment only test net. There’s parallel efforts going-on for phase 0, phase…

It’s here it’s here! Over the past months we’ve been preparing extensively, working every single day to deliver a public testnet for Ethereum 2.0’s proof of stake beacon chain to the community. We have it, it’s live, and you can stake! …

Our biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team and we hope you enjoy them! Merged Code, Pull Requests, and Issues Aligned All Our Code With Latest 2.1 Spec Multiple pull requests have opened to modify our core blockchain package to align with latest 2.1 spec. First, we updated the block and state fields in data structures, then we made minor tweaks on…

Latest Research Registrations, shard count, and shuffling The validator collateral deposit is fixed at 32 ETH and deposits are done via a one-way burn contract on the legacy chain. A validator can withdraw the deposit in later phase from the beacon chain. A validator can be in one of the three distinct states: Pending Register Registered Pending…

So many exciting things to share in this update! We’ll dive into some critical new discussion from the Ethereum Research team and discuss what Prysmatic Labs is working on. Technical updates Sharding Phase 1 Specification (Version 1.1) In a sharded universe, technical updates move fast. By this I mean to say that…