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- Housekeeping
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Discussion:
Besu Incentive Program
- Goals
- Teams free to do what they want with validator value and validator tx fees (rewards)
- Keys will be divested over 6 month periods (allowing more and more funds to be withdrawn)
- Provide long-term incentives to folks that are building Ethereum Mainnet clients
- Offered to all mainnet client teams (execution and consensus)
- EF will provide validator keys at a later time depending on incentive program milestones
- Performance metrics
- Taken over a monthly time frame
- Over 95% attestation and block proposal inclusions
- Avoid slashing for these validators - slashed validators will be removed from the program
- Consensus client issues - EF will not penalize execution layer client for consensus issues on the other client
- Execution layer has to be quick enough (performant) to create the block
- Interoperability
- Trust in this process by EF - good faith interop (could use canary nodes for combinations that are less tested)
- Why Now?
- Prepping for the Merge
- Helps measure performance and confirms meeting protocol expectations
- How do we run this program across the Besu community?
- This is a big ask for time from community members - Not all should be forced to be node operators
- Concerns are:
- All maintainers can't run a release
- Data not shared from ConsenSys with the community
- Lack of transparency from ConsenSys team on roadmap
- Money will make this open source project more challenging with the community
- PRs that need to be reviewed in timely manner
- Ideas for Incentivizing Besu community
- Near term idea: Bounty program
- Near term idea: Clear benchmarks/requirements for operator validator nodes
- Medium/long term idea: Besu DAO
If we have time...
General Announcements
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