Inventory of the ten key figures behind the merger of Ethereum
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1. Aidan Hyman, Chainsafe CEO and co-founder
who is he?Aidan Hyman is the CEO and co-founder of Chainsafe, a blockchain research and development company that works on building various cross-chain projects, such as Lodestar, a consensus client that implements Ethereum’s proof-of-stake algorithm, which will be included in the Ethereum Merge play a key role.
what did he do? Lodestar aims to enable individual users to self-host a staking validator and verify blockchain data, helping to eliminate reliance on centralized network verification service providers. The project is open source and written in the popular programming language Typescript, which also makes it accessible to the developer community. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin provided ChainSafe with its first funding in 2018 to develop Lodestar. Several members within the ChainSafe company also participated in the launch of the Goerli testnet, which is the core test platform before the launch of the Ethereum mainnet.
secondary titleLinkedIn、ChainSafe、Github
2. Danny Ryan, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation
who is he?Danny Ryan is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports Ethereum and related technologies. Danny Ryan is also the lead coordinator of Ethereum upgrades and is a frequent contributor to the Ethereum Foundation blog, providing updates on “merging” and developments on the Ethereum roadmap.
What did he do?According to a previous interview with a16z Future, Danny Ryan has been involved in the upgrade of Ethereum's proof of rights as early as 2017. He described his role at the Ethereum Foundation as helping to facilitate dialogue to determine the scalability, security and security of Ethereum. Timelines and priorities related to sustainability upgrade work, while also helping to formulate a review of Ethereum research and development to recommend solutions.
Where to find Danny Ryan:Twitter、secondary title
3. Paul Hauner, co-founder of Sigma Prime
who is he?Paul Hauner is the co-founder of information security consulting firm Sigma Prime and also founded the Lighthouse project, another proof-of-stake consensus client for Ethereum. Since 2018, the Lighthouse project has received financial support from the Ethereum Foundation, infrastructure company ConsenSys, and ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
What did he do?Lighthouse is an Ethereum consensus client that implements the proof-of-stake algorithm with a high degree of speed and security. Sigma Prime is responsible for the maintenance of the client, helping individual users to download the client and become a validator of the Ethereum consensus layer. According to Lighthouse's website, the Lighthouse team is also actively involved in Ethereum's proof-of-stake consensus specification development and security analysis.
Where to find Paul Hauner:Github、secondary title、Twitter、
4. Justin Drake, researcher at the Ethereum Foundation
who is he?Justin Drake is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, joining the foundation in 2017, having previously founded a startup called Duo Money. Justin Drake, who first forayed into the crypto space in 2013 when he founded the Cambridge Bitcoin Meetup group, has recently come into the public eye for his views on post-merger staking rewards.
What did he do?In an interview with CryptoStaker, Justin Drake described his role at the Ethereum Foundation as "responsible for dialogue with insiders and the public community, minute-by-minute updates," as well as technical coordination and research for the Ethereum Foundation.
Where to find Justin Drake:Twitter、secondary title、LinkedIn
5. Pooja Ranjan, Head of Ethereum Cat Herders
who is she?Pooja Ranjan is the director of Ethereum Cat Herders, founded the Ethereum news site EtherWorld and worked as a senior software engineer at Accenture.
what did she doPooja Ranjan, who describes herself as a group of people who "support Ethereum's core developers through communication and coordination through project management and other aspects," are also responsible for putting together educational videos on Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), or merged with " ” and other design documents related to Ethereum topics.
secondary titleLinkedIn、Medium、Twitter、GitHub
6. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin
who is he?Russian-Canadian programmer Vitalik Buterin is undoubtedly the most high-profile co-founder of Ethereum. He co-founded Bitcoin Magazine "Bitcoin Magazine" in 2011 and released the Ethereum white paper in 2014.
What did he do?Although Vitalik Buterin is no longer an Ethereum core developer, since the introduction of the design concept for the new consensus mechanism in 2016, he has played an important role in conveying the transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, such as attending discussions on the Ethereum roadmap And share technical articles and give your opinion on a wide range of encryption topics. In December 2021, Vitalik Buterin said in a talk in Buenos Aires: "I think it is very important for Ethereum to move to proof of stake for environmental reasons and efficiency reasons, and it is also a way to make the protocol better." , confirm transactions faster, make the network more efficient, increase the chances of light client support - but there is a long list of work to be done."
Where to find Vitalik Buterin:secondary title、Twitter、GitHub
7. Tim Beiko, Head of Protocol Support, Ethereum Foundation
who is he?Tim Beiko is a core developer of the Ethereum blockchain, joining the Ethereum Foundation in 2021 after transitioning from a product manager position at ConsenSys.
What did he do?Tim Beiko leads bi-weekly core developer meetingshttps://github.com/prestonvanloon, the conference that serves as the glue that holds the ethereum developer community together, focusing on various matters related to network upgrades and improvements, including a host of updates needed to prepare for the switch to proof-of-stake.
Tim Beiko was the first to disclose that the "merge" would take place in mid-September, and he was also instrumental in helping launch Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559 (EIP-1559), part of the London upgrade that introduced A new destruction mechanism has been introduced.
secondary titleTwitter、GitHub、LinkedIn
8. Preston Van Loon, co-founder of Prysmatic Labs
who is he?Preston Van Loon co-founded Ethereum infrastructure company Prysmatic Labs with Raul Jordan in 2018, after working at Google.
What did he do?Preston Van Loon's company has been working on the Prysm client, which is currently the most popular of the major consensus clients supporting the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Prysmatic is starting to focus on shard scaling solutions, which will be a much-anticipated upgrade to Ethereum after the “merge” happens.
The process of transitioning from proof-of-work consensus took ethereum developers years, apparently much longer than expected, but Preston Van Loon explained that Prysmatic has been working hard to get things right. "At Prysmatic Labs, we were one of the first to get involved, and I think the entire codebase was rewritten at least 3 times."
secondary titleTwitter、GitHub、LinkedIn
9. Ben Edgington, Head of Product at ConsenSys Teku
who is he?Ben Edgington is the founder and product lead of Teku, an open source consensus client.
What did he do?Ben Edgington decided back in early 2018 to focus his efforts on Ethereum scaling and Proof of Stake. In the same year, he started developing the Teku consensus client. Ben Edgington has stated that he was “really hooked” on Ethereum when he learned about the transition to proof-of-stake because he was concerned that proof-of-work would negatively impact the environment.
Ben Edgington wrote in a blog post: "On that day six years ago, I had no idea it would take us this long to offer proof of stake. The journey has been longer and harder than anyone could have imagined. But the merger is finally here. "
Where to find Ben Edgington:secondary title、GitHub、LinkedIn、Twitter
10. Mikhail Kalinin, principal researcher at ConsenSys R&D
who is he?Mikhail Kalinin is now a principal researcher at ConsenSys and one of the longest-serving developers on Ethereum, having started working on the Ethereum client back in 2015.
What did he do?Mikhail Kalinin has made great contributions to several key technical steps to realize the "merger" of Ethereum, including the release of the executable beacon chain proposal and so on. Tim Beiko said on social media that Danny Ryan and Mikhail Kalinin were the two most key figures in the merger and said, "They did build and drive the ship."
