Announcing the Kintsugi Merge Testnet

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

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

Though consumer growth 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 previously explained, 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 most definitely to want to adapt to assist The Merge.

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

Utilizing Kintsugi

Try the Kintsugi landing page for details about interacting with the Kintsugi community. You will discover community settings, a faucet, a block explorer and a JSON-RPC endpoint, together with documentation up to date to mirror supported consensus <> execution layer consumer combos.

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

Help & Suggestions

The EthStaker neighborhood is accessible to offer Kintsugi assist. In case you have questions, encounter errors or want clarifications, they’re glad to offer help within the #testingthemerge🐼 channel of their Discord server.

With the launch of Kintsugi, we hope the neighborhood will get concerned #TestingTheMerge. Examine ou this listing of test scenarios for concepts on the best way to carry your testing to the subsequent stage.

For those who determine bugs or points with the specification, the most effective place to boost these is within the #merge-general channel of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. For those who’d somewhat not use Discord, different venues to boost such points are the specification repositories (consensus, execution, APIs), and Ethereum Magicians ✨.

Subsequent Steps

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

After this, current long-lived testnets will run by means 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 desirous to observe the progress at a extra granular stage, a mainnet readiness checklist is publicly obtainable and repeatedly up to date.

See you on Kintsugi 🍵!