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From YouTube: The Heroes of The Merge
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A
A
Good
morning,
I'm
Tim,
Bako
and
I
work
with
the
protocol
support
team
of
the
ethereum
foundation
I'm
here
today
to
talk
about
the
people
and
the
teams
who
helped
transition
ethereum
from
proof
of
work
to
proof
of
stake,
but
before
I
get
started.
I
just
want
to
take
a
minute
to
explain
what
protocol
sport
is
because
it's
like
the
first
time
we
use
this,
and
when
I
told
my
family
I
was
joining
the
ef's
protocol
support
team.
A
They
said
it
kind
of
sounded
like
ethereum's
call
center
or
like
people
would
call
it
like
their
transaction
is
stuck
or
like
they
can't
run
their
node,
and
that's
that's
actually
not
what
we
do
so
the
main
thing
our
team
does
is
we
help
coordinate
and
facilitate
Network
upgrades
to
ethereum.
But
beyond
that,
we
also
spend
a
lot
of
time
trying
to
figure
out
how
we
can
better
align
the
community
across
the
people
working
on
layer,
one
all
of
the
infrastructure
and
teams
around
them
and
the
people
building
applications
on
ethereum.
A
Another
thing
to
spend
a
lot
of
time
on
is
figuring
out.
How
can
we
onboard
and
retain
people
to
contribute
to
ethereum
there's
a
few
things
we
do
on
that
front?
Most
recently,
we
announced
the
ethereum
protocol
Fellowship,
which
is
something
where
folks
who
want
to
come
and
work
on.
The
ethereum
protocol
can
do
so
for
a
couple
months
and
hopefully,
then
find
a
job
full
time
working
in
the
space.
A
And,
lastly,
we
spent
a
lot
of
time
doing
like
weird
little
mementos
and
things
for
the
community
when
there's
big
Milestones
that
happen,
whether
these
are
things
like
the
1559
nfts,
the
merge
manual
that
just
went
out.
We
try
and
think
about
like
how
can
we
like
memorialize
all
these
big
things
both
for
the
community
and
for
all
the
people
who
worked
on
it
yeah?
A
So
that's
what
we
do
at
products
support,
but
that's
not
the
main
thing
I
want
to
talk
about
the
main
topic
of
the
day
is
basically
the
what
I've
called
like
the
heroes
of
the
merge.
All
of
the
people,
all
of
the
teams
who
helped
get
ethereum
the
proof
of
stake
and
obviously
there's
way
too
many
people
for
me
to
go
over
in
just
a
short
talk,
but
at
least
there's
a
couple
core
buckets
that
are
worth
highlighting.
A
A
The
EF
research
team
was
obviously
a
big
part
of
that,
but
they
weren't
alone.
There
were
other
teams
such
as
txrx
quilt,
who
played
a
major
role
in
this
aside
from
from
these,
the
next
kind
of
logical
one
is
all
of
the
consensus
layer
teams
they're
the
people
who
write
this
software,
that
powers,
the
beacon
chain
and
literally
run
proofs
runs
proof
of
stake.
So
these
are
teams
like
Lighthouse,
Nimbus,
prism,
taku
and
lodestar,
and
obviously
they
have
all
their
counterparts
on
the
execution
layer.
A
So
all
of
the
people
who
wrote
the
software
to
run
ethereum
on
proof
of
work
and
that
still
manages
basically
the
evm
transaction
ethereum
State,
and
all
of
that
these
are
teams
like
base
2,
like
Geth,
like
nethermine
and
Aragon.
And
last
but
not
least,
the
merge
was
a
massive
massive
testing
effort.
There's
not
like
a
single
team
or
even
a
single
project
that
we
can
kind
of
list
encapsulate
all
of
that.
So
I
just
want
to
give
a
shout
out
to
everyone.
A
Who's
worked
on
all
of
the
testing
efforts,
whether
this
is
Hive,
whether
this
is
all
the
infrastructure
to
set
up
Shadow,
forks
and
test
line
combinations
before
going
live,
whether
these
other
reference
tests
that
client
teams
kind
of
implement
against
folks
who
works
on
this
specification
on
the
consensus
layer,
side
who
worked
on
eips
and
everyone
who
worked
on
the
security
side
as
well,
including
the
bug
Ramsey
program,
so
I'd,
ask
everyone
to.
A
Please
give
a
massive
Round
of
Applause
that
all
of
these
teams,
all
these
individuals
who
moved
it
there
into
proof
of
stake.
As
we
were
getting
closer
to
the
merge
this
summer,
I
was
trying
to
think
like.
Can
we
do
something
that'll
stay
around
with
all
these
people
after
Defcon
is
over?
You
know
to
kind
of
highlight
this
contribution,
and
it
was
a
bit
weird
to
find
the
right
thing.
A
What
could
we
do
for
like
all
the
folks
who
worked
on
this
and
I
had
a
neat
conversation
with
Ben
from
the
techu
team,
and
so
he
was
telling
me,
like
all
of
the
people
on
his
team,
often
end
up
not
being
able
to
go
to
East
conferences,
because
they're
kind
of
so
into
weeds,
working
under
stuff
that
they
literally
forget
about
tickets
going
live,
they
can't
find
one
and
then
they
show
up
and
they
can't
get
in
the
conference
for
the
protocol.
A
They
need
to
rebuild
and
it's
not
like,
they
don't
want
to
pay
for
it
or
anything.
It's
just
like
they
completely
miss
it
and
then
they're
like
stuck
at
the
door
for
the
ethereum
conference.
So
it
seemed
like
a
solvable
problem
like
something
we
could.
We
could
do
to
make
their
lives
easier,
and
so
I
spent
some
time
talking
to
some
folks
figuring
out.
The
best
approach
for
this
and
I'm
really
I'm,
really
happy
with
what
he
came
up
with
so
I'm
excited
to
announce
what
we've
called
the
merge
or
pass.
A
A
Thanks
and
one
thing
that's
neat
about
this-
you
know
because
this
will
all
be
on
chain,
it
all
be
public,
so
anyone
in
the
community
can
obviously
extend
it
and
build
on
it,
but
I'm
really
excited
today
to
say
you
know
the
first
Partners
we
have
for
this
are
Etc
Global,
Devcon,
edcon
I've
all
agreed
to
honor
this
for
the
next
several
years.
So
can
I.
Please
get
a
round
of
applause
for
all
of
these
Partners.
Thank
you.