A new June 23 Update on Ethereum 2.0 revealed that the ETH team is continuously working on the next PoS protocol. Although the community in general feels that developments have been slow in coming. Written by Ethereum developer Danny Ryan, the blog noted several developments since the project's last update in May.
Overall, the gist was that all of the “public summaries, client teams, contributors, and community members/prospective validators have been busy.” Few tech takeaways were that the new Solidity deposit contract was formally verified and added to the rewards program. Furthermore, the long-awaited Altona v0.12 testnet was expected to be released next week.
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Ryan noted the Ethereum Foundation, which oversees the development of the Ethereum protocol, will continue to provide Sigma Prime with its “beacon-fuzz” framework that helps “find all the bugs.” Listing the new repository contract written in Solidity, Ryan wrote that the contract retained the same public interface and saw that the addition of an EIP 165 supports the interface function. He added that the change was fully transparent and visible to all developers.
There was "latent concerns” around the language of the previous “Vyper” contract, Ryan points out, even when the contract was “heavily tested, checked and formally verified“. A ConsenSys researcher, Suhabe Bugrara, reviewed Vyper's repository agreement, calling it "robust" but did not recommend bytecode "as secure as long as you use the Vyper compiler."
Ryan said the Altona v0.12 multi-client testnet will be released before July. The testnet will be fully controlled by constituent client teams such as Faro, Nimbo, Prysm and Teku, as well as members of the Ethereum Foundation team. However, like other test nets Released multi-client, Altona is a “devnet” rather than one intended for end users.
