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EthStaker Call 2020/09/10 - Medalla Data Challenge

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Three broad things we're looking for:

  1. visualization, i.e. realtime website or dashboard
  2. analysis, i.e. analyze some property of the network
  3. new tooling for getting/preparing data

Some places to get data and things to look at:

  1. block explorers API/scraping (i.e. beaconcha.in, blockaction)
    • validator income/wealth distribution
    • eth1 deposits x time
    • block proposal -> inclusion funnel
  2. http API of nodes
    • client syncing comparison
    • client connectivity comparison
  3. network traffic using rumor/prrkl (https://github.com/protolambda/rumor, https://github.com/prrkl/imp)
    • invalid block/attestation studies (i.e. DoS detection)
    • speed of justification/finalization
    • radius of network (would require multiple nodes)

3 is the hardest, but also the least explored!


Misc tool ideas:

  • rumor/prrkl scripts
  • ansible setups for collecting specific types of data from a set of nodes
  • rumor/prrkl + jupyter notebook integration