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Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap can run without him.

On Twitter, Buterin said the process of detaching himself from Ethereum has already begun, and that the project could survive if he was to spontaneously combust.

Already in progress; watch the repos, even much of the research is being done by @dannyryan, @drakefjustin, @icebearhww and others. — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) October 5, 2018

I think ethereum can absolutely survive me spontaneously combusting tomorrow at this point. — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) October 5, 2018

Buterin has not offered a timeline on when he might take a backseat.

Meanwhile, the testnet launch for Ethereum’s much-anticipated Constantinople upgrade has been slightly delayed.

According to Peter Szilagyi of the Ethereum Foundation, the team decided it’s best to trigger a delay to give nodes that power the network more time to address a security issue.

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Via community decision, we've delayed the #Ethereum Ropsten testnet Constantinople hard fork by 1 epoch to block #4230000 (+5 days) to allow clients to implement, test and release an update to CREATE2, countering a recently found EVM DoS attack vector.https://t.co/q0bUyj3GfR — Péter Szilágyi (@peter_szilagyi) October 4, 2018

Among other things, the Ethereum upgrade is designed to increase the speed of the network, lower fees, and modify the way data is stored. The new launch date is now set for October 14th.