The Ethereum team launched Zinken on October 12, the final testnet before moving Ethereum 2.0 to its permanent blockchain. The test ran without major issues and confirmed the genesis process would wor
The Ethereum team launched Zinken on October 12, the final testnet before moving Ethereum 2.0 to its permanent blockchain. The test ran without major issues and confirmed the genesis process would work, the process that creates the first block on the new network.
Developers ran this simulation after an earlier testnet called Spadina had collapsed under client errors and poor validator participation. Before taking the live network public, they needed confirmation that genesis would succeed.
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Danny Ryan, who leads the Ethereum 2.0 project, confirmed the outcome. "Genesis went well, which is the main thing we were looking for," he said. Terence Tsao, another developer, described the results on Twitter as "almost perfect performance on an incentivized testnet that ran by the community."
Ethereum 2.0 launches next. Validators will stake cryptocurrency to operate the new system when it goes live.
The system needs 16,000 validators and 500,000 ETH staked to run. Developers reduced those numbers on the testnet to make trials manageable.
Developers built Ethereum 2.0 to handle more transactions. The current Ethereum processes about 15 transactions per second. Ethereum 2.0 targets up to 100,000 per second.
The Medalla testnet, running alongside Zinken, has drawn substantial participation. By late September, it hosted 60,000 validators controlling about 2 million test ETH. An additional 15,000 validators joined as development continued, bringing test ETH to 2.4 million.
Zinken will stay active for a few more days before the team powers it down.
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