Support the Ethereum Cat Herders!!

The Ethereum Cat Herders is a group of individuals from the Ethereum community working to support Ethereum non-technical errands. Introduced in January 2019, the goal was to provide assistance with the All Core Developers’ meeting notes to update the community on what developers are working on and create engagement to make Ethereum a decentralized space in its truest sense. Since the inception of the group, the Ethereum Cat Herders have come a long way.

The first significant milestone in 2019 was Constantinople/St. Petersburg update that was deployed on the main network on Feb 28, 2019. Initially, the Constantinople upgrade was planned for block number 7,080,000. That upgrade had to be postponed due to a security vulnerability. The Ethereum Cat Herders (ECH) released a report The Constantinople Ethereum Hard Fork Postponement to let the community know what happened behind the scenes. This was also the beginning of the Ethereum Cat Herders community support in practice. The ECH joined the core developers and initiated communication with the major stakeholders of the community for Constantinople2. Reaching out to mining pools, exchanges, wallets, and other infrastructure providers, the Cat Herders opened channels of direct communication.

Another exemplary action of coordination was the success of the Muir Glacier upgrade. It was a challenge in itself to update the community about an upcoming upgrade to be deployed in less than a month since the previous one. Accepting the challenge, and with tremendous coordination, over 92% of nodes were in sync at the time of upgrade. The Muir Glacier upgrade was a huge success and was deployed on mainnet on Jan 02, 2020.

The Ethereum Cat Herders want to thank all the amazing developers and wonderful community members for another glorious year in Ethereum. We look forward to continuing to help the Ethereum ecosystem with coordination in 2020!

(I’d like to thank Hudson Jameson and Helena Flack for reviewing this article.)

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