Ethereum 2.0 Devs Discuss Medalla Issues as Network Stabilizes

Following the successful but imperfect launch of the Medalla testnet, the first community testnet for Ethereum 2.0, developers spoke on the issues and needed improvements highlighted by the event.

In an Eth 2.0 Dev call held on Aug. 6, the network's client developers discussed what initially went wrong.

Client developers discovered several "Peering" bugs that would have prevented effective connections between nodes.

The remainder, in addition to the confusion with last-minute client updates, was due to some stakers being offline.

This is to be expected, they said, and the network will "Leak" the 32 ETH stake until the offline validators are kicked off the network.

Some of the large stakers did not spin up their clients.

Developers contacted one of them, and through a combination of factors, participation was quickly brought to about 80%.The network is nevertheless not completely stable.

Prysm and Lighthouse, the two leading clients according to popular usage, are still seeing validation issues.

According to polls cited by Ethereum Foundation's Danny Ryan, about 90% of all nodes run those two clients.

Some bugs are allegedly more severe than others, but none of the clients are yet perfect.