Blockchain
By Ayobami Abiola
1 / 11
Ethereum (ETH) Version 2 Testnet is Chugging along Smoothly Despite Hurdles
2 / 11
Ethereum developers have been meticulous in the development and testing of ETH2 over the past few weeks.
3 / 11
Being in haste to push a very big update like ETH2 might be very disastrous if there is a flaw in the code.
4 / 11
Eth2 Medalla test net ran into spiraling failures that lasted five days from August 14 because of an error with Prysm client.
5 / 11
“Almost immediately after the incident started, users noticed their Prysm node reporting their clock was off and they were seeing blocks from the future… The 6th server in the…
6 / 11
Couteracting this error, the team pushed an update to the client which led to an even worse problem:
7 / 11
“In releasing this fix, we accidentally removed the initialization of all critical features for our eth2 beacon node to function, making the problem infinitely worse.”
8 / 11
Rolling back the update after it had been corrected created confusion in the community of test net validators.
9 / 11
The error impacted the testnet greatly because the network was dominated by the Prysm client.
10 / 11
“...the incident on Medalla was significantly amplified by the failure of the dominant Prysm client, and as we move toward mainnet, we, as a community, must consciously seek to…
11 / 11
The date for ETH2 is not set yet, but there is an assurance that it is still on schedule.
The Currency Analytics
Want the full story?