{"id":18338,"date":"2026-03-16T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/eth2-quick-update-no-10\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:15:43","slug":"eth2-quick-update-no-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/eth2-quick-update-no-10\/","title":{"rendered":"eth2 quick update no. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Have some fun announcements for y’all this week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Other than the items below, client teams continue to move toward production. More on that next week!<\/p>\n

tl;dr<\/p>\n

<\/g><\/svg><\/a>Least Authority Phase 0 audit complete<\/h2>\n

As discussed many months ago, we engaged with Least Authority to conduct a full audit of the Phase 0 specifications. The audit was comprehensive with a deep look at potential DoS attacks, misuse of resources, unintended forks\/chains, and attacks impacting funds.<\/p>\n

The audit is now complete and available for public review<\/a> \ud83c\udf89.<\/p>\n

The Least Authority audit helped us patch a few DoS vectors in gossip messages with additional validation conditions (Issues A & B<\/em>), highlighted a known concern about the public block proposer leader election (Issues C & D<\/em>), and spurred further investigation into potential DoS attacks using libp2p gossipsub control messages (Issue G<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Beyond these concrete issues, the audit made some suggestions for cleaning up the p2p spec, investigating techniques for tightening up gossip, and getting the core consensus papers\/proofs peer reviewed.<\/p>\n

A big thank you to Least Authority. It was a pleasure to work with their many auditors on this project!<\/p>\n

<\/g><\/svg><\/a>Phase 0 Pre-Launch<\/em> Bounty Program<\/h2>\n

We’re excited to announce the Phase 0 Pre-Launch Bounty Program<\/a>!<\/p>\n

This program is designed to incentivize you<\/em> (rewards up to $10k!) to find and report bugs in the core Eth2 Phase 0 specs prior to mainnet launch \ud83d\udc1b.<\/p>\n

The Ethereum Foundation will run this program from now until just prior to the Phase 0 mainnet launch. After Phase 0 is in production, we will transition Phase 0 bounties to the standard Ethereum Bounty Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> for details about the rules, how to report, severity levels, and rewards.<\/p>\n

To kick off the program, we’re excited to award the first three bug bounties!<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy \ud83d\udc1b hunting!<\/p>\n

<\/g><\/svg><\/a>Unification of eth1+eth2 communications<\/h2>\n

Something magical has been happening since deVcon in Osaka. Under the wrangling of Piper, the vague eth1x research initiative has blossomed into the Stateless Ethereum movement with a concrete roadmap and wide participation across the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

This movement is complementary to the eth2 scaling efforts, and the research, specs, development, and conversation of both eth1+eth2 increasingly overlap. To aid in this collaborative effort driving the future of Ethereum, eth1+eth2 communications were recently merged into the Eth R&D<\/em> discord server<\/a><\/p>\n

Join us<\/a>! You’re welcome to lurk, ask questions, propose new sync protocols, prototype the eth1+eth2 unification, optimize witnesses, or otherwise just keep up to speed on the future of the Ethereum protocol \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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