Ethereum developer confirms Eth 2.0 will not go live in July

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Ethereum's long-awaited Eth2.0 (Serenity) upgrade phase 0 using the PoS mechanism may take longer than previously expected. Ethereum project developers confirmed on May 12 that any so-called clear launch date is a clear misinformation.

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Eth2.0 will not arrive in July

The Eth2.0 upgrade has been in development since early 2018. In terms of its protocol update, the upgrade is to Ethereum what the halving is to Bitcoin.

Since Ethereum core developer Afri Schoeden recently announced that Eth2.0's first multi-client testnet "Schlesi" is online and running, the Eth2.0 phase 0 (beacon chain) mainnet will be launched in mid-July The information spread, but according to Afri's tweet on May 12th, any "publicly" hinting at a clear launch date is not actually a "helpful" behavior for Eth2.0 .

It was previously reported that Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, was recently asked by reporters about the launch in July when he participated in the Consensus Conference. It was reported that Vitalik answered "yes" (yes) at that time.

Afri tweeted:

“The final spec (of Eth2.0 phase 0) has not yet been implemented on any clients, and we have yet to launch a (formal) federated testnet. Publicly stating a go-live date doesn’t actually help. I don’t think Vitalik said7 It will be online in the month."

Afterwards, Vitalik also responded to Afri's tweet. Vitalik replied:

"Yeah, I didn't say July (will be online). Maybe (the reporter's) question included the word July, but I didn't hear the word July when I asked the question. I should have heard it in the question. The word July, my fault."

Twitter users were quick to ask the developer about the expected release date. However, as will happen with any software development, testing cycles take a long time and cannot be rushed, especially for a distributed protocol without centralized oversight.

Afri's tweet was a reply to a developer named Marco Levarato, who is not an Ethereum developer. Marco tweeted:

“(Eth2.0) is unlikely to go live in July because there is no official (joint) testnet yet, and this ‘coming’ official testnet needs to run flawlessly for at least 2 months. And we are already It's mid-May."