Since returning from the Amphora merge workshop, lawsuit teams person been hard astatine enactment implementing the latest versions of merge specifications and investigating them connected devnets.

After 4 ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived nationalist testnet, is present live!

Although lawsuit improvement and UX proceed to beryllium refined, we promote the assemblage to commencement utilizing Kintsugi to familiarize themselves with Ethereum successful a post-merge context. For exertion developers, as antecedently explained, not overmuch volition change. Tooling which lone interacts with either the statement oregon execution furniture is besides mostly unaffected. Infrastructure which depends connected some layers is astir apt to request to accommodate to enactment The Merge.

We urge astir projects statesman investigating and prototyping connected Kintsugi to aboveground immoderate imaginable issues soon. This way, changes tin much easy beryllium incorporated successful aboriginal lawsuit and specification versions.

Using Kintsugi

Check retired the Kintsugi landing page for accusation astir interacting with the Kintsugi network. You’ll find web settings, a faucet, a artifact explorer and a JSON-RPC endpoint, on with documentation updated to bespeak supported statement <> execution furniture lawsuit combinations.

As a reminder, post-merge, a afloat Ethereum lawsuit is comprised of some a Beacon / Consensus node and an Execution motor (handled by an existing “Eth1” client). Both layers support autarkic API endpoints and adjacent connections to grip their respective role. For a afloat overview of Ethereum’s post-merge architecture, spot this post.

Support & Feedback

The EthStaker assemblage is disposable to supply Kintsugi support. If you person questions, brushwood errors oregon request clarifications, they are blessed to supply assistance successful the #testingthemerge🐼 transmission of their Discord server.

With the motorboat of Kintsugi, we anticipation the assemblage gets progressive #TestingTheMerge. Check ou this database of test scenarios for ideas connected however to bring your investigating to the adjacent level.

If you place bugs oregon issues with the specification, the champion spot to rise these is successful the #merge-general transmission of the Ethereum R&D Discord server. If you’d alternatively not usage Discord, different venues to rise specified issues are the specification repositories (consensus, execution, APIs), and Ethereum Magicians ✨.

Next Steps

The Kintsugi testnet provides the assemblage an accidental to experimentation with post-merge Ethereum and statesman to place immoderate issues. Once feedback has been incorporated into the lawsuit sofware and the specifications, a last bid of testnets volition beryllium launched. In parallel, investigating efforts volition proceed ramping up.

After this, existing long-lived testnets volition tally done The Merge. Once these person upgraded and are stable, adjacent up is Ethereum mainnet’s modulation to impervious of involvement 🎊.

For those anxious to travel the advancement astatine a much granular level, a mainnet readiness checklist is publically disposable and regularly updated.

See you connected Kintsugi 🍵!