Ethereum 2.0 lead developer Danny Ryan revealed in the Bankless podcast that the launch of the ETH2 deposit contract will take place in the first half of November. The reason is the desire to make sure that there are no errors in the BLST cryptographic library following an audit by NCC.
The deposit contract allows you to send ETH from the existing network to Ethereum 2.0, confirming the powers of the stakers.
“The library needs to have a high degree of randomness to create wallets and be fine-tuned to sign deposits. If there are problems in it, an error may occur in the launch of the deposit contract. It's a blocking factor, ”Ryan said.
According to the lead developer, the launch of the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract will take place in early or mid November, depending on the results of the audit. It will last two weeks. In this scenario, you can proceed to the creation of the ETH2 genesis block this year.
Ryan added that in parallel, the teams are working to improve customer reliability and audit, optimize resource consumption, "polish launch sites" and other tasks.
Update: The auditing company Quantstamp has not identified any critical problems in the Teku client from the Ethereum studio Consensys. Experts have confirmed that the software is ready to migrate to ETH2, DeCrypt reports.
A week earlier, developer Ben Edgington announced the launch of the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract "in the coming days."
Edgington's post came a few days after the launch of the final Zinken testnet with a three-day lifecycle.