Kintsugi testnet

[parithosh]

• Decide date for genesis + delay + fork epoch
• Decide on number of validators
• Contract
• Setup config
• Generate mnemonics
• Deploy eth1 miner with high TTD (Ensure the contract address is pre-deployed with the code + in the state)
• Collect enode from miner and pass to config variable
• Generate genesis state
• Get ENR
• PR with the information
• Provision nodes
• Deploy other clients with ENR to get them peering
• Check if genesis root + genesis data matches with client API. It should match what the python script (genesis testnet tool repo) outputs for our genesis.ssz
• Publish list of ENR address of the deployed clients, add as file to the PR
• Setup monitoring and dashboards for the clients
• Setup testnet faucet
• Setup forkmon
• Setup beacon explorer
• Setup eth1 explorer
• Setup public RPC (HAproxy route)
• Setup webpage that collects all the info in one place
• Document making deposits

Aim of devnet:

• Test transition again, single miner to avoid issues
• Test v3 specs + CL 1.1.6 + EL v1.0.0-alpha.5 (no proposer boosting, imperfect optimistic sync)
• Have a new devnet for optimistic sync testing
• Test @skylenet's kubernetes based setup for tooling + minority nodes/validators
• Involve the public in deployments and testing over the holidays

[parithosh]

Configs have been updated in the repo. No nodes have been started, we'd start the nodes + tooling in the morning. We should be good to go tomorrow.

Config info at a glance:

• 72,100 genesis validators
• 72 nodes split over: US, Germany and India
• CL genesis ~2PM CEST
• EL TTD 5000000000
• Tooling will be fully run in Kubernetes + few nodes as well
• Client team git branch/docker image info: https://notes.ethereum.org/@ExXcnR0-SJGthjz1dwkA1A/HkJ8Aolct

[parithosh]

Testnet is live, genesis is in ~1.5h. All tooling links can be found here: https://kintsugi.themerge.dev/

[parithosh]

TTD has been hit. We have shifted to PoS mode on Kintsugi. Participation hovers around 85% right now, we'll look into which client combinations are missing and get some fixes in.