{"id":87881,"date":"2018-10-08T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=87881"},"modified":"2020-04-09T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:43:06","slug":"ethereum-to-see-casper-and-plasma-with-or-without-vitalik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/ethereum-to-see-casper-and-plasma-with-or-without-vitalik\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum to See Casper and Plasma With or Without Vitalik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder and ubiquitous mouthpiece of Ethereum<\/a>, hinted the start of his detachment from the operational side of his creation and dropped a series of bombshell announcements about the progress of the smart contract platform\u2019s much-anticipated scalability enhancements, including Casper<\/a> and Plasma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a tweet Oct. 6, Buterin claimed that the rubber has begun to hit the road for both Casper and Plasma, and that the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization could be seeing Zk-SNARK-enabled privacy in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n

Regarding Casper, arguably the most coveted development in the Ethereum toolbox, the Russian-Canadian described the Proof-of-Stake and sharding solution as being \u201croughly finished\u201d, and highlighted that more than four spec implementations of the technology were \u201cwell underway.” He stated:<\/p>\n

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1. Casper\/sharding spec roughly finished, now in refinement stages
2. 4+ implementations of the spec well underway
3. Many implementations of plasma well underway
4. ZK-SNARK-based layer 2 scaling and privacy well underway<\/p>\n

It's a night-and-day difference from 2017.<\/p>\n

— Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) October 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n