Vitalik Buterin, ethereum’s inventor, says they have figured out all research breakthroughs needed for ethereum 2.0, with now just implementation left.





“We’ve actually already had all the research breakthroughs we need for a full implementation of eth2. This has been the case for about a year now,” he said.





The bold claim was made while there are now about three testnets for phase zero of ethereum 2.0, with a cross client testnet being the next stage which may begin this summer.





That phase zero is just staking, a sort of dummy main-net that’s halfway between a testent and a fully featured blockchain.





Some features, storage sharding, is to be added in phase 1 expected next year. The actual and full launch is then phase 2 expected in two years.

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