Developer Ben Edgington expressed bewilderment at the statement of Ethereum 2.0 coordinator Danny Ryan about the need to postpone the launch of the Deposit contract for several weeks due to the lack of audit results of one of the cryptographic libraries.
"Danny said that the deployment was slightly delayed to allow the audit of the Blst crypto library to be completed first. I do not know why this became a blocking factor, since neither the Deposit contract nor the official Deposit Toolkit use this library, " Edgington wrote.
Ryan later did not comment on the remarks, but Edgington publicly stated: "I have some responsibility for coordinating all Eth2-related activity at ConsenSys. This does not apply to a few people or several moving elements and requires significant planning. Staying in limbo as a program Manager is a nightmare. In addition, we (the community) are ready (as it seems to me from the position of the product owner of one of the clients). Let's do it."
Responding to claims that he is solely driven by the desire to reach a key point, Edgington wrote: "But we have already come to this. At the current stage, this is no longer a prediction, but perhaps an expression of indignation because no one has yet pulled the trigger."
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also noted earlier in the week that the quantstamp auditor approved the launch of Ethereum 2.0. "in theory, if customer teams get too angry at us for not saying 'launch', they can do it themselves, " he wrote.
"In principle, one or more customer teams can deploy a contract, conduct a release, and launch a chain. Access isn't restricted, is it? But it will be much better if we move together, " Edgington added.