The FE is pleased to announce the results of the The Medalla Data Challengea data hackathon focused on the Medalla testnet ✨
The prompt was open: we asked for data tools, visualizations, and analyzes of testnet data; in short, anything that could help the community make sense of all the data.
Over a six-week period, we received 23 submissions from a wide variety of teams. We were delighted to see high quality submissions for each category.
The awards are divided into three tiers based on their scope, scalability, and utility to the community.
🥇 Gold ($15,000 price)
- Jim McDonald– chaina tool for extracting data from a running eth2 client and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this tool has been used by several other teams who have submitted themselves to the data challenge.
- Pintail — a series of blog posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) compare client performance, study network behavior, and discuss validator effectiveness.
🥈 Money ($5,000 prize)
- Sid Shekhar and Elias Simos — one large-scale study eth2 data.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — a extension from the ethereum-etl tool to eth2, as well as a BigQuery database dump of eth2 data.
- Nate McKervey of Splunk — a blog post and dashboard study the health of the Ethereum network.
🥉 Bronze ($1,000 prize)
Look forward to
The goals of this competition were to welcome new minds into the Ethereum community, encourage them to delve into eth2 data, facilitate its analysis, and provide valuable insights to developers and the community at large. To this end, the competition was a great success and we believe many of the tools and analytics produced will be useful when the mainnet goes live.
If you would like to pick up where one of these submissions left off, please consider applying for a community staking grant!
