The EF is pleased to announce the results of the Data Challenge Medala data hackathon focused on the Medalla testnet ✨
The message was open: we request data tools, visualizations and analysis of testnet data; in short, anything that would help the community make sense of all the data.
Over the course of six weeks, we received 23 submissions from a wide variety of teams. We were pleased to see high-quality submissions for each category.
Awards are divided into three tiers based on scope, extensibility, and utility to the community.
🥇 Gold ($15k prize)
- Jim McDonald. chained, a tool to extract data from a running eth2 client and store it in a PostgreSQL database. Notably, this tool was used by many other teams that underwent the data challenge.
- Pintail: A series of blog posts (one, 2, 3, 4, 5) comparing client performance, studying network behavior, and discussing the effectiveness of the validator.
🥈 Silver ($5k prize)
- Sid Shekhar and Elias Simos, a large study of eth2 data.
- Evgeny Medvedev of Nansen — a extension from the ethereum-etl tool to eth2, as well as a data dump from eth2 to the BigQuery database.
- Splunk’s Nate McKervey, a blog post and board studying the health of the Ethereum network.
🥉 Bronze ($1k prize)
Thinking in the future
The goals of this contest were to welcome new minds into the Ethereum community, encourage them to pore over the eth2 data, make it easy to analyze and analyze, and provide valuable insight to both developers and the community at large. To that end, the competition has been a great success, and we suspect that many of the tools and analytics produced will prove useful as the mainnet goes live.
If you are interested in picking up where any of these shipments left off, please consider requesting a community grant!
