In a session ask me anything ‘AMA’ on ‘redditThe developers behind Ethereum 2.0 have responded to the Ethereum community’s most pressing concerns.

Danny Ryan, Ethereum 2.0 project coordinator, provided an interim report on the team’s progress and explained that an important step had been taken with the completion of the formal verification of the deposit smart contract bytecode.

Through the AMA, lead developer Justin Drake explained that the deposit contract had been completed.

Although user interface auditing and testing for this smart contract has yet to be completed, Drake estimates that it could be done within the next three months.

Most of the questions directed to developers focused on the beginning of Phase 0 of Ethereum 2.0.

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Project coordinator Danny Ryan explained that no major job changes have been made since last June.

Ryan continued, explaining:

The changes made were mainly to improve the beacon chain by avoiding invalid placeholder specifications for stage 1, moving unnecessary complexity (such as some early optimizations for clients) to stage 1 when we really need it, and polishing what is there.

On the other hand, Drake said that the estimated start date for Phase 0 is July 30the fifth anniversary of the block (the first block) in Ethereum.

However, the date is still temporary, as explained by “Ryan” later, as he explained that this will depend on technical development, stability and upgrading during this stage.

In addition, Ryan believes it is necessary to wait for the developers to move forward with the audits.

When asked if the team would consider starting the first stage in 2021 a failure, Drake replied:

Yes, it would be a failure.

I am 95% confident that we will launch in 2020.

Regarding future plans, Drake said he is working on a “SNARK ASIC” accelerator which could be launched after the “ASIC VDF” is introduced.

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The developer said he is excited about the progress the Ethereum network can make in terms of scalability if “SNARKs” are used.

He also mentioned:

With Phase 1 research completed, I’m spending a lot of time on SNARKs.

Vitalik Buterin’s opinion on the progress of Ethereum 2.0

He also participated in the Ask Me Anything session, the founder of Ethereum “Vitalik Buterin” and expressed his opinion on the progress of Ethereum 2.0.

Buterin was satisfied with the answers from developers Ryan and Drake.

In response to the question of whether Ethereum has a plan in the event of a delayed start of Phase 0, Buterin said that the developers are simultaneously focusing on improving the scalability of the network.

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Buterin said the development process is preparing for a merger between eth1 and eth2, and made it clear that he’s not too concerned about scalability.

Finally, Drake also spoke about how long he considers necessary to maintain a test network and how many clients he thinks should participate in this phase.

I think most of the research team wants to launch 3 production clients, and Danny is a notable exception who advocates launching with only 2 production clients. As for uptime, I’d say we need a stable multi-client test network for at least two months.

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