Another Ethereum 2.0 testnet 'Zinken'

[bitcoinst]

Ethereum 2.0 developers will run yet another testnet "Zinken" in the coming days as the Spadina testnet didn't go smoothly enough.

Danny Ryan, a core Ethereum developer, said Spadina suffered long waits to block finality and low participation from Ethereum 2.0 clients, or parties that run nodes to validate transactions.

"Even though we expect moderately low participation on a short-lived non-incentivized testnet, small errors in the client release process great[ly] exacerbated this problem, resulting in ~1/3 participation in the first few epochs," said Ryan. "In response to these issues, we'll be hosting -at least- one more dress rehearsal -- Zinken -- prior to genesis."

Prysmatic Labs, one of the Ethereum 2.0 clients, said the issues with the Spadina testnet gave a "bad look for this 'genesis rehearsal.'" However, it wasn't a critical bug or a consensus error, "but rather something due to configuration parameters which can be fixed with a release," said Prysmatic.

The Zinken testnet is expected to run "in a week and a half," said Ryan.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/79261/ethereum-2-another-testnet-zinken

[slackovic]

It looks like those guys are hard at work. It doesn't matter how many testing and test networks they run, as long as everything goes smooth once the mainnet is released.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

It looks like those guys are hard at work. It doesn't matter how many testing and test networks they run, as long as everything goes smooth once the mainnet is released.

I do agree that those guys behind are really on the 24x7 job to really make the new release seamless as possible, and perhaps they really wanted to make it up by getting it done this time within schedule and budget. Of course they need to to to a lot testing right now to capture issues or defects as early as they can to have a fix. So let's see how Zinken will fare in this new testing. And hope everything runs smooth with just minor issues.