Frontier

FRONTIER IS NOT YET LIVE

Watch this: if issues for Milestone Frontier are not 100% closed, we are not ready for release.

Issues are tracked on github.

Frontier is the first in a series of releases.

Disclaimer

Frontier is a live testnet. It is here to help us prepare for the main release.

• We fully expect instability and consensus flaws in the client, some of which may be exploitable
• As curators, we fully reserve the right to ignore blocks at our discretion
• As curators, from a final block that we solely determine, we will preserve all non-contract (i.e. code-less) account balances above the value of 1 ETH into the Homestead Genesis block

Components released

The focus of Frontier is the go implementation of an ethereum full node, with a command line interface codenamed geth.

By installing and running geth, you can take part in the ethereum live testnet, mine, transfer funds between addresses, create contracts and send transactions.

WARNING: before you use geth or interact with the ethereum Frontier live testnet, make sure you read the official release notes and understand the caveats and risks.

Apart from geth the go cli, the Frontier release contains the following ingredients:

• web3.js library implementing the JavaScript Dapp API
• solc a standalone solidity compiler. You only need this if you want to use your Dapp or console to compile solidity code.
• ethminer a standalone miner for openCL GPU mining
• netstat network monitoring GUI is a node.js in-browser Dapp.

Resources:

• original announcement of the release scheme
• follow-up blogpost