Souptacular updated about Metropolis 2 (Constantinople) progress so far :
Constantinople doesn't have a timeline yet
teams are focusing on Casper and sharding and layer 1 scalability solutions.
Vitalik pushed the idea that there be a shift in community excitement around hard forks and other optimizations, like client speed-ups, be celebrated.
At this time there are just too few EIPs that would take away too much time from other efforts to justify pushing Metro too soon before we have significant progress (even more so than today) on things like Casper and sharding.
Vlad Zamfir, a lead developer of Ethereum involved in developing Casper, has recently added a poll on twitter and the result shows that 57% users support hard fork Reddit
A research by Tokenthusiast says More Than 70% of Ethereum DApps are Games.
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EIP: Modify block mining to be ASIC resistant. Issue#958Reddit
OmiseGo, with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, is donating the equivalent of $1 million USD in OMG tokens directly to refugees living in extreme poverty, and GiveDirectly will deliver those funds.
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