5 ETH phase 0 bounties

[JustinDrake]

• Prize—5 ETH (or 1000 DAI, whichever largest) for any substantive change to the master branch merged prior to the Eth2 genesis. Security fixes may be rewarded more at the discretion of the research team.
• Scope—Substantive changes to the phase 0 spec for either:
  • state transition function—hash_tree_root(state_transition(state, block)) changes for some inputs state and block, or
  • fork choice rule—get_head(store) changes after some received sequence of blocks and attestations at specific times, or
  • deposit contract—changes to the contract bytecode
• Exclusions—The following are out of scope:
  • configuration values, which are expected to be tweaked
  • BLS signatures, which are undergoing standardisation
  • known open issues and PRs (in particular, the first to file is rewarded in case of duplicates).
• Participate—To participate open an issue or PR with a description of the issue or suggested change. After the substantive change is merged into master ask @JustinDrake for payment.

[vbuterin]

Scope—Substantive changes to the phase 0 state transition function, i.e. changes that modify hash_tree_root(state_transition(state, block)) for some inputs state and block.

And the fork choice rule?

[JustinDrake]

And the fork choice rule?

Added :)

[ethers]

Although a known open issue, should #1303 be eligible?

Are there any other open issues that could use more help and where substantive feedback/changes could be rewarded?

[djrtwo]

This bounty is specifically for identifying bugs and other substantive changes that should be made to the phase 0 related specs prior to mainnet launch.

Anything identified in an existing issue is not eligible for this bounty

[ethers]

Got it this is strictly phase0.

To the extent that bounties are helpful, maybe a separate bounty should be considered for open issues that could use more help or substantive feedback... Kind of a difference between asking people to review something at the "end", vs encouraging (more) participation during the process. A bounty could help signal areas where more attention is desired.

[djrtwo]

Note! This program is suspended until we make the next couple of releases. It will be re-instituted in mid-January

[djrtwo]

Closing this issue.
This program was suspended due to some breaking changes going into the spec.

We are reformulating the program and will release details asap

[ethers]

The current Bounty Program is at
https://notes.ethereum.org/@djrtwo/phase0-bounty

per https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/03/31/eth2-quick-update-no-10/