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+The contract logic here is based on the deposit contract written in Vyper.
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+The original repository (https://github.com/ethereum/deposit_contract) had the following authors:
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+@NIC619
+@carver
+@hwwhww
+@davesque
+@ralexstokes
+@ChihChengLiang
+@nisdas
+@djrtwo
+@JustinDrake
+@vbuterin
+@njgheorghita
+@CarlBeek
+
+In eth2.0-specs repository (https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs), its current location, it had the following additional authors:
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+@daejunpark
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+And this repository has the following authors:
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+@axic
+@MrChico
+@chriseth
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+(All of the above are GitHub usernames in order of they appeared first in the commit history.)