Olympic: Frontier Pre-Release | Ethereum Foundation Blog

What started all the way in which again on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to an in depth: we’re comfortable to announce the discharge of the ninth and final within the Ethereum Proof-of-Idea collection. We invite the neighborhood to take part within the ongoing Proof-of-Idea IX testnet in our current launch, Olympic, made available now.

The aim of Olympic is to reward individuals who attempt to take a look at the bounds of the Ethereum blockchain throughout the pre-release interval, spamming the community with transactions and doing loopy issues with the state, in order that we are able to see how the community holds up underneath excessive ranges of load. On the identical time, utility builders, knowledge suppliers, exchanges, and customers are inspired to develop and deploy on the testnet and run nodes – and in case you have a number of digital non-public servers, spin up as many nodes as you possibly can.

Olympic will function a complete prize fund of as much as 25,000 ether. There will likely be 4 classes of prize in addition to a grand prize for the primary individual to create a considerable fork on the testnet.

The 4 classes of prize will likely be Transaction Exercise, Digital Machine Utilization, Mining Prowess and Normal Punishment. Every class will embody a fundamental prize of two,500 ether, in addition to a number of smaller prizes at 100 – 1,000 ether and probably tiny rewards of 0.1-5 ether merely for collaborating. Every of the classes will likely be judged by Vitalik, Gavin and Jeff, doubtless with substantial assist from automated blockchain evaluation instruments. Along with the Ether, just like the bounty programme, all prize-winners will likely be entitled to have their identify immortalised within the Ethereum Genesis block. Please be aware that to be thought of for a prize, ship an e-mail describing a declare to olympic@ethereum.org.

That is additionally the final part of the Ethereum improvement course of earlier than the Frontier launch, because the community is at the moment proving to be extremely steady at its present measurement of 20-100 nodes, all main shoppers have been staying in consensus and we’re approaching code freeze pending testing and auditing inputs. It’s anticipated to final near 14 days, although we reserve the appropriate to shorten or lengthen it based mostly on technical issues. Once we deem that we’re prepared, we are going to present a 48 hour countdown for the Frontier 1.0 launch.

Binaries and supply can be found right here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v0.9.18

A piece-in-progress information to Frontier is offered right here: http://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/

Transaction Exercise

This consists of exercise associated to sending and receiving transactions. Examples of issues we would reward embody:

• The account that sends the best whole variety of transactions
• The account that contributes the best whole of fuel utilization
• The account that receives the best whole variety of transactions
• The account that contributes the best bloat (as measured in bytes) to the blockchain by way of transaction trie contents
• The account with the bottom handle (by way of lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal) that sends no less than one transaction
• The 2 accounts that ship no less than one transaction whose addresses are closest to one another

Digital Machine Utilization

This consists of exercise regarding utilizing the digital machine. Examples of issues we would reward embody:

• The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode
• The account that makes the best variety of calls of any opcode inside a single transaction
• The account that sends the one transaction that takes the longest for a specific consumer to execute
• The account that sends the one transaction with the best ratio of time to execute per unit fuel consumed
• The account that receives the best whole variety of messages
• The account that reverts the best whole quantity of fuel utilization
• The account that creates the contract with the bottom handle (by way of lexicographic order or numerical illustration; the 2 orders are equal)
• The account that sends the transaction with the biggest (as measured in bytes) encoded receipt RLP
• The account that produces the biggest variety of transactions whose bloom is a (distinct) prime quantity
• A creator of a contract that incorporates, for instance, a sudoku solver, taking an array of 81 values as enter and outputting the array of 81 values equivalent to a solved sudoku

Mining Prowess

This consists of exercise regarding mining; miners will likely be recognized by coinbase handle. Examples of issues we would reward embody:

• The miner that produces the biggest block in the principle chain (as measured in bytes)
• The miner that contributes the biggest whole variety of bytes of block knowledge to the principle chain
• The miner that mines the biggest variety of blocks in a row
• The miner that features probably the most transactions
• The miner that produces the block that takes the longest period of time for a specific consumer to course of

Normal Punishment

This consists of mucking round with the State in loopy methods, getting contracts to do loopy issues. Examples of issues we would reward embody:

• The sender/miner of the transaction/block that provides the biggest variety of objects to contract storage
• The creator of the contract with the biggest code (externally-owned accounts solely)
• The creator of the contract with probably the most crammed objects in storage
• The creator of the contract that incorporates a key/worth pair with the best merkle tree depth (ie. the biggest variety of hash lookups earlier than attending to the worth)
• The creator of the contract that suicides whereas containing probably the most crammed objects in storage
• The creator of the contract that makes the biggest variety of consecutive storage updates such that the storage root at every step is a first-rate quantity.

Word that the above classes are not at all an exhaustive checklist of issues which can be eligible for prizes. In the event you do something outdoors of the above that you just really feel deserves consideration, please e mail us.

The Grand Prize

A grand prize of no less than 5,000 ether will likely be shared between the miner(s) who handle to create a considerable fork between the Go and C++ shoppers. The fork have to be on the principle chain; one consumer should settle for the block with the opposite consumer rejecting it. Smaller prizes for forks between Go/C++ and Python might also be obtainable.

Good luck, and we stay up for seeing and listening to what you all provide you with!

– The ethereum core dev group