Merge Data Challenge Results

The Ethereum Foundation is excited to denote the winners of the Merge Data Challenge 🐼.

The situation ran for ~9 weeks surrounding the Merge, allowing for information analysts to stitchery and reappraisal accusation some earlier and aft the large event. Participants submitted a treasure trove of information and investigation successful 45(!) antithetic blog posts.

Enjoy combing done the galore insights and, arsenic everything is unfastened source, consciousness escaped to unfastened things up and extend/modify the analysis!

Prizes

Prizes are divided into 3 tiers, based connected the wide quality, scope, extensibility, and usefulness to the community.

Gold ($30k prize) 🥇

• pintail - Since the Merge: How Are Things Changing?
• Jannik Luhn - Attestation successful Data

Silver ($10k prize) 🥈

• Jim McDonald - Exploring the Impact of MEV Relays
• Ethereum Pools - Performance Analysis of Ethereum Staking Pools During The Merge
• Ultrasound.Money - The Merge and ultrasound.money
• fmrmf - Converging to the Target
• Kirubakumaresh Rajendran - EthLooker -- A Unified Ethereum Dashboard

Bronze ($2.5k prize) 🥉

• Anton Wahrstätter - Practical Guide into Analyzing MEV successful the Proof-of-Stake Era
• petclippy - Ethereum validators, performing nether pressure
• Austin Adams - The Impact of 12 Second Block Times connected Decentralized Finance
• Xin Wan - Decentralization of artifact accumulation pre- and post-Merge
• Brian Wilkes - MEV Post Merge Changes (DEX)
• Migalabs / Metrika - Validators oregon value-takers?
• pa7x1 - A Tale of Two Tails: How the Merge Lowered Ethereum Gas Prices

Looking Forward

The Merge Data Challenge produced fantabulous caller tools, analyses, and visualizations. That said, determination is ongoing enactment to bash successful monitoring and knowing Ethereum's proof-of-stake web -- particularly successful the Beacon Chain consensus-layer.

If you're funny successful digging deeper oregon productionizing the tools and techniques recovered successful these submissions, delight see applying to the Ecosystem Support Program!