The Merge is coming, providing a more secure and sustainable home for Ethereum—as well as more data, lots and lots of data. And the Ethereum community needs your help to make sense of it all.
- What new visualizations help provide insight into proof-of-stake Ethereum?
- How do the consensus layer and execution layer interact? Are there differences across client pairs in communication patterns, efficiency, etc? Are there good places to optimize?
- What, if anything, changed on the network at the point of The Merge—block propagation times, p2p connections, transaction mempool performance, etc?
- Did The Merge affect core Beacon Chain activity—attestation performance, blocks missed, sync committees?
- Did user activity noticeably change after the Merge? What about MEV?
- What new tools can you build to collect and analyze data in the post-Merge network?
Document your best Merge data insights in the most readable blog post possible—for prizes!
The Ethereum Foundation is running this challenge because there’s a lot to learn and discover from the Merge mainnet activity. Your findings will give the Ethereum community – from beginners to researchers and client developers – important insight into the Merge.