I got the chance to talk with Pooja Ranjan and Alita Moore from the Ethereum Cat Herders as part of their PEEPanEIP series last week: PEEPanEIP #38: Altair in Teku with Adrian Sutton. It was a chance to talk through the actual implementation details required to support the Altair fork.

Mostly listing here for my own record, but if you haven’t seen it and you care at all about Ethereum hopefully it will be interesting.

This week, the work I’ve been doing for the past 6 months, and that PegaSys has been working on for the past 18 months or so was released into the world. Specifically we’ve released Pantheon 0.8.1, our new MainNet compatible, Apache 2 licensed, Java-based Ethereum client. And it’s open source.

I’m pretty excited about it on a few fronts. Firstly I think it’s a pretty important thing for the Ethereum community. To be a healthy ecosystem, Ethereum needs to have diversity in its clients to avoid a bug in one client taking out or accidentally hard forking the entire network. Currently though, Geth and Parity dominate the Ethereum client landscape. Pantheon clearly won’t change that in the short term, but it is backed by significant engineering resources to help it keep up with the ever changing Ethereum landscape and be a dependable option.