Forum AMA: Ethereum 2.0 & Staking

Prysmatic Labs is one of the main teams implementing Ethereum 2.0, including Proof of Stake (PoS) and sharding. Prysmatic Labs worked directly with the Ethereum research team to build the Ethereum 2.0 client Prysm in Go. The team has received funding from Ethereum Foundation, Wanxiang Blockchain, Ethereum Community Fund, Aragon, etc. Raul Jordan is the co-founder of Prysmatic Labs. Raul Jordan studied computer science at Harvard University and received a Thiel Scholarship in 2015. He is originally from Honduras and now lives in Chicago, USA. In his spare time, he spends a lot of time learning traditional Chinese calligraphy and Cantonese. His Chinese name is Mai Wenlong.

Sigma Prime is an Australian-based company that focuses on blockchain technology, and its business involves information security analysis of smart contracts, blockchain protocols, and blockchain implementations. For the past 2-3 years, Sigma Prime has been developing an Ethereum 2.0 implementation - the Lighthouse client - in Rust. Lighthouse is now in production, running on the Eth2 beacon chain, and has been widely accepted by users. Since the beginning of Ethereum 2.0, the Sigma Prime team has been involved in specification writing and implementation, and has played an important role in optimizing the specification, clarifying the network protocol, and providing security analysis (through fuzz testing) to all major Eth2 teams and specifications.