Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin asked developers to speed up the preparation of ETH 2.0 clients for the first phase in order to test their performance in practice.

He noted that most of the specifications inherent in the first phase of Ethereum 2.0 have already been implemented in zero, so developers can only optimize and Refine the code.

Buterin believes that the main risk in the transition to the first phase of Ethereum 2.0 is the introduction of peer-to-peer network sharding, which has never been used in such a scenario before.

Eventually, it wants to launch a simplified version of the Ethereum 2.0 client on the ETH 1 network in parallel with the first phase. This will allow you to test the new network in practice and achieve the promised throughput of 100,000 transactions per second. The technical side of this issue is still under development, Buterin added.

Last week, the lead developer of ETH 2.0, Danny Ryan, published part of the code for merging the functioning blockchain and the second version of the Protocol.