Our last post in the Prysmatic Labs medium page for a while! Future posts will be focused solely on Prysm client development updates as our team is now being acquired by Offchain Labs. Our company, Prysmatic Labs, is getting acquired by Offchain Labs, the creators of the Arbitrum scaling…

Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake approximately in mid-September. This event, known as “The Merge”, is a major change to how the system works and node operators need to be ready before then to ensure a smooth upgrade. This post goes over everything node operators need to know in a a…

Onwards to “The Merge” It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these updates, as our team has been working towards our biggest milestone, “The Merge” of Ethereum proof-of-stake into the current Ethereum network. …

Background Prysmatic Labs builds the software behind the next generation Ethereum blockchain. Our main project, Prysm, is one of the popular Ethereum clients used for proof-of-stake today. We love programming in Go and believe in using tried-and-tested design principles to manage complexity at scale. When writing a distributed systems application with…

Background The Ethereum Proof of Stake chain, also known as the beacon chain or consensus chain, has been live since December 1st, 2020 securing double digit billions of dollars worth of ETH. The protocol which defines this blockchain has a common specification, found here, which is open source and free for…

In the coming month or months, Prysmatic Labs will be releasing a major version bump of the Prysm Eth2 client, v2.0.0. This is the first major version bump to our software since we released the mainnet-ready version of the client back in December 1st, 2020. Since then, we have maintained…

New Team Member We recently added a new teammate, Zahoor Mohamed! Zahoor recently shipped Ethereum Swarm to mainnet, marking a significant milestone in decentralized file storage. Swarm is incredibly decentralized at the time of mainnet launch, and Zahoor brings to our team many years of distributed systems knowledge. …

6 Months Since ETH Proof of Stake Launched Team Growth This quarter, we have been focused on growing our team. We have recently onboarded more developers into Prysmatic Labs, with Kasey Kirkham as our first hire of the year. We are thrilled to have Kasey joining us as he brings a wealth of experience in software engineering. Kasey has…

Written by the Prysmatic Labs Team — Incident Summary At epoch 32302, the beacon chain started missing a lot of block proposals. Prysm was the likely suspect since Prysm represents a large portion of Eth2 operators. After a short while, we were able to reproduce the error locally and the problem was indicative of a known issue regarding eth1…