Ethereum 2.0, the most significant feat of engineering ever attempted in crypto’s short history, has been a multi-year endeavor. Ethereum developer Tim Beiko has played an outsized role helping to orchestrate this operation – which will see the most-actively used blockchain switch to an entirely new consensus mechanism, like swapping out a person’s skeleton – by hosting core protocol meetings this year. The project hit several milestones in 2021, including multiple hard forks and deployment of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), many of which Beiko led.
Most Influential 40: Tim Beiko
