Bia Public Testnet II

The second public testnet for Obol will be in partnership with the Gnosis Chain, and will use validators with real skin in the game.

This is intended to be the first time that Distributed Validator tokenisation comes into play. Obol intends to let candidate operators form groups, create keys that point to pre-defined Obol controlled withdrawal addresses, and submit a typeform application to our testnet team including their created deposit data and manifest lockfile and exit data. (So we can verify the validator pubkey they are submitting is a DV)

Once the testnet team has verified the operators as real humans not sybil attacking the testnet that have created legitimate DV keys, their validator will be activated with Obol GoEth.

At the end of the testnet period, all validators will be exited, and their performance will be judged to decide the incentivisation they will recieve.

Participants: Obol Operator Community, Ethereum Staking Community

State: MVP

Network: Merged Goerli

Target start date: January 2023

Duration: 6 weeks

Network: Merged Gnosis Chain

Goals:

• Broad community participation
• First Obol Incentivised Testnet
• Distributed Validator returns competetive versus single validator clients
• Run an unreasonably large percentage of an incentivised test network to see the network performance at scale if a majority of validators moved to DV architectures

https://docs.obol.tech/docs/testnet#cerce-public-testnet-ii