{"id":31262,"date":"2020-11-04T17:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31262"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:47:55","slug":"alleged-ethereum-2-0-deposit-contract-launch-code-appears-on-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/alleged-ethereum-2-0-deposit-contract-launch-code-appears-on-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Ethereum 2.0 deposit-contract launch code appears on GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Code has been uploaded from the Ethereum Foundation developer Karl Beekhuizen&#8217;s GitHub account, which purportedly initiates the launch of the deposit contract for the second version of the Ethereum protocol. The post is titled &#8220;We have the ability to launch the main engine,&#8221; though there has been no official confirmation of the veracity of his words to date.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Releasing the deposit contract on election night is Peak <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i08bqXGDZ0\">https:\/\/t.co\/i08bqXGDZ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DavidHoffman.eth \ud83c\udff4 (@TrustlessState) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrustlessState\/status\/1323755564074070016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deposit contract enables sending ETH from the existing network to ETH2, confirming the authority of the stakers. It is expected that the ETH2 genesis block will launch in six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Suspicion arose on Discord that Beekhuizen&#8217;s account had been compromised.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Eth dev discord may disagree. Also EF has issued an update <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pUxqo1z5kG\">pic.twitter.com\/pUxqo1z5kG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Foxley (@wsfoxley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wsfoxley\/status\/1323767871546089472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In late October, developer Ben Edgington <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opinion-ethereum-2-0-deposit-contract-expected-in-the-coming-days\">announced<\/a> the imminent launch of the ETH2 deposit contract. The day before, he said that there were hours left until the event, not days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hours not days \ud83d\ude09\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude1b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RpiO4ThW29\">https:\/\/t.co\/RpiO4ThW29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Edgington \u27e0 benjaminion.eth (@benjaminion_xyz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benjaminion_xyz\/status\/1323606335603249152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some saw only code that allows generating keys required to contribute funds to the ETH2 deposit contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Where is the deposit contract in this commit? This is mostly just wallet generation code and mnemonic import code?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 oisin.eth (@OisinKyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OisinKyne\/status\/1323811695924514816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, developers warned about the risks of fake deposit contracts. They advised users not to send coins until official information emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ethereum 2.0 lead developer Danny Ryan <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-2-0-deposit-contract-launch-delayed-by-two-weeks-developers-say\">said<\/a> that the ETH2 deposit contract would launch in the first half of November.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sjo3oRi43l\">\n<p>What is Ethereum 2.0?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00abWhat is Ethereum 2.0?\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-ethereum-2-0\/embed#?secret=NfGDVzflsw#?secret=sjo3oRi43l\" data-secret=\"sjo3oRi43l\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Code uploaded from the Ethereum Foundation developer Karl Beekhuizen&#8217;s GitHub account, which purportedly initiates the launch of the deposit contract for the second version of the Ethereum protocol. The post is titled &#8220;We have the ability to launch the main engine,&#8221; though there has been no official confirmation of the veracity of his words to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-31262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"33","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31264,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions\/31264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}