March 3, 2019

Coordinate the following hard forts Ethereum will be several developers.


According to H. Jameson, who is the Ethereum Foundation's community manager, various tasks will be assigned to the update coordinator. Including:

  • determining the dates for submitting proposals for improving EIPs;
  • implementation and testing of developments;
  • launch updates.
Jameson stressed that the developers decided: the team consisting of several people should coordinate the new hard forks.

“These people will promote new ideas and consider various proposals. Although they should not be dictators. Truth is born in teamwork, ”says Jameson.

Recall, the other day there was a long-awaited update of Ethereum - Constantinople. Parallel launched hardfork Petersburg, which should turn off the problematic EIP-1283. The Reentrancy vulnerability fixed in it was the reason that the blockchain update was postponed at the beginning of this year.