- Piper (
pipermerriam
in most places), Snake Charmers team lead - Mostly the Trinity client, Lots of Python stuff.
- Beam sync, Stateless clients, Making client development easier and making running a client easier.
- Alexey, Ethereum researcher and developer
- Turbo-Geth + Stateless Ethereum prototyping/specifications
- Most of the things on this list: https://ledgerwatch.github.io/Ethereum_1_Research_topics.html, particularly those where there is more text warning - this is not a permalink, it will keep changing
- Jason Carver (@carver typically)
- Trinity, other python things
- Reducing friction to launching nodes, so:
- Sync Speed
- Sync Speed
- Sync Speed
- Growing disk usage
- Sync Speed
- Danno Ferrin (@shemnon most places)
- Hyperledger Besu, and just plain old Besu too.
- My interests, in order of importance
a. Stateless clients and other means to address state size
b. EVM evolution
c. EVM performance
- Griffin Hotchkiss (@gichiba most places)
- Writing (technical), documenting the state of 1.x research for a wider audience, asking basic questions.
- I’ll follow the pulse of what lines of research seem the most fundamental, which at the moment I believe is stateless clients.
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- John Adler
- Solving the scalability problem
- On the Eth 1.x front, optimistic rollup and improvements to the base chain for rollup schemes, which make state growth a non-issue in practice
- Martin Lundfall
- Formal semantics (beacon chain), hevm, spec writing
- Statelessness
- Concurrent tx processing
- EVM evolution
- Matt Garnett
- Eth2 virtual machine, stateless execution, and EE design
- Understanding the needs of Eth 1.x to help advocate for eth2 VM design decisions
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- Thomas Jay Rush
- TrueBlocks
- I’m just going to be a watcher. I suspect that stateless clients will make recovery of transaction histories from previously unmonitored addresses in a decentralized way much more difficult if not impossible. Need to educate myself, though.
- Sina Mahmoodi
- ethereumjs/ewasm
- stateless execution, eth1 EE
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- Guillaume Ballet
- Go-ethereum dev, ewasm
- Areas:
3.1 State management features
3.2 Using WASM to increase feature adoption speed
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- Casey Detrio
- Ewasm
- Cross-chain (eth1 <-> eth2) interop / integration
- Tim Beiko (@timbeiko on twitter/telegram/etc.)
- Product Manager on Hyperledger Besu, an Eth1 client
- Specific areas of research you are interested in:
3.1 ETH 1.0 sustainability (state growth issues, statelessness, etc.)
3.2 ETH 1 -> ETH 2 transition
- Trent Van Epps (trent_vanepps on twitter)
- Working at Whiteblock on community and product marketing.
- node incentivisation, making nodes easier to run, stateless paradigm, the whole 1x effort and the transition to eth2 as well
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- Stefaan Ponnet ( @sponnet on twitter / github / telegram / … )
- Product development at AVADO (ava.do) - pre-installed blockchain node hardware
- areas of interest:
3.1 point-and-click solution (a.k.a. a wizard) to set up and maintain a residential ETH1.x node
3.2 create incentives for running hardware at home - making running a node easier
Hopefully not too late to the party here.
- Diederik Loerakker (@protolambda)
- Eth 2.0 researcher, bridging between implementation/phase0 things, and then some light-client/ssz/related things. Python/Go all day.
- Everything related to eth2 encoding/merkle proofs, stateless clients, and eth2 spec <> eth2 client support.
- Wil Barnes
- Multi-Collateral Dai
- Stateless Ethereum, Eth2 transition
- Brian McMichael
- Smart Contracts @ MakerDAO
- Unstoppable code. Stakeholder incentives.
- Paweł Bylica
- C++ / Aleth / EVM / Ewasm / EVMC
- EVM and execution engines, testing, fuzzing, APIs
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- Wei Tang
- Parity Ethereum dev
- Backward compatibility, EVM optimizations