Ethereum Releases Updates For Mainnet Serenity, Now Closer Than Ready
Vitalik Buterin and his team's plans have been changed for years, but alternative consensus mechanisms such as Proof of Stake (PoS) and scaling solutions, such as Plasma myths and sharding protocols, have long been floating. The aim of the developer is to integrate all of these improvements in improvements known as 2.0 (Serenity).
Earlier this month, Buterin explained that Serenity can be easily explained as
ways to bring technical improvements, such as PoS and sharding, together to improve Virtual Machines, Merkle Trees, protocol efficiency, and a number of small technical things you've never heard of.
Now, Ethereum's Raul Jordan released an update about the project.
He started the blog by saying that the purpose of this testnet was to have a highly available network that was strong for branching, not an invalid validator, and allow new validators to join the network to participate in the Stake Proof consensus in accordance with protocol rules.
Testnet they must complete the following steps:
- Ethereum 2.0 from Goerli testnet ETH into the Deposit Validator Contract
- Run Phase 0 Evidence of Stake beacon chain protocols with validators who produce and prove blocks by distributed consensus on Prysmclient
- Implement a strong fork selection rule for network partitions because of latency or bad actors
- Allow anyone to synchronize with the network via p2p and to activate a new validator into the system
Allow anyone who runs a validator to view gifts from time to time and any penalties that can be applied depending on the active time and activity of each validator
Jordan added on the blog:
Our Testnet will be a gradually evolving project that we hope the community uses as an opportunity to test how the Ethereum 2.0 flare chain is practiced in the wild. We will include a monitoring portal for our cloud cluster that anyone can see to check network health [...]
