Testnet Updates and Hard Fork Capabilities Spadina testnet release, genesis event rehearsal: Spadina testnet has been set to genesis on September 29 at 12pm UTC. (Genesis time: 1601380800) This is a dress rehearsal Testnet for the community to practice sending deposits and launching beacon nodes and validator clients starting from genesis. We all know practice makes perfect, so this will help us…

Medalla Testnet Launched Successfully Summarizing the Launch

Onyx Testnet Updates Bad blocks propagated in Onyx Last week, the Onyx testnet experienced a few hours of volatile peer to peer messaging. Users were reporting high error rates in processing new blocks and it seemed to affect the whole network. This issue caused a period where the beacon chain was unable to finalize. We identified the root…

New v0.12.1 Version Testnet Incoming With the recent releases of v0.12.0 and v0.12.1, the Prysmatic Labs team has been hard at work to align Prysm with new scoped features and bug fixes. We are happy to announce that the restart of Topaz testnet for v0.12.1 is just around the corner. If you have any preference…

Our biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on the Ethereum Serenity roadmap. 🆕 New Testnet Updates 🔹Slasher running in production catching slashable offenses Our slasher implementation is now capably working in production, running in our cloud deployment in order to catch all slashable attestation events happening in the Prysm testnet. That means if your validator is wired up…

Our biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on the Ethereum Serenity roadmap. 🆕 New Teammate We are happy to announce after receiving a very talented batch of applicants, we have hired our new full-time teammate at Prysmatic: Victor Farazdagi!

For all the eth2 folks out there, we have become accustomed to occasional testnet restarts as they bring positive progress. Testnet restarts enable us to bring in new features, improvements and bug fixes that improve the overall user experience. We’ve come a long way from having a short-lived set of…

Our testnet updates are brought to you by the entire Prysmatic Labs team Testnet Network Stats Just a week ago, we relaunched our Prysm single client test network . aligned with v0.9.0 of the beacon chain spec. Below are some interesting stats on how far the testnet has grown over the week. As…

Our biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on the Ethereum Serenity roadmap. Testnet Relaunch Testnet with v0.9 After a few weeks of down time. We have brought back Prysm ETH2 testnet for public to experience staking, and most importantly to help us run validator clients and beacon nodes. This is one important…