ChainSafe

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ChainSafe / lodestar

lodestar

🌟 Ethereum Consensus client for the Zig and TypeScript ecosystem

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What it is

🌟 Ethereum Consensus client for the Zig and TypeScript ecosystem

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consensys-incorporated/teku · linked in 3 of the same discussions
offchainlabs/prysm · linked in 3 of the same discussions
sigp/lighthouse · linked in 3 of the same discussions

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Observed mentions: 2022-07-07 19:47:30 UTC to 2022-09-15 04:06:31 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Jul 4	2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC	2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jul 11	2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC	2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 18	2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC	2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 25	2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC	2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 1	2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 8	2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC	2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 15	2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC	2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 22	2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC	2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Aug 29	2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 5	2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 12	2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC	2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0

What Hacker News says

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michaelsbradley·Sep 15, 2022Submission

Ask HN: Is Ethereum's Merge one of the biggest successes in Open Source?

It certainly seems it will be remembered as a major success story for open p2p protocols on the global Internet of our time. A great multitude of developers and enthusiasts belonging or contributing to diverse teams spread across the world: developing, debating, and collaborating for years to arrive at the big event. And it's all been done very much in the public view: https://weekinethereumnews.com/ https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news https://github.com/ethereum/pm https://www.youtube.com/c/EthereumFoundation/videos Consensus Clients: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse#readme https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar#readme https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2#readme https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm#readme https://github.com/ConsenSys/teku#readme Execution Clients: https://github.com/akula-bft/akula#readme https://github.com/h

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yperledger/besu#readme https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon#readme https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum#readme https://github.com/NethermindEth/nethermind#readme https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1#readme And there are many Open Source specs and libraries underlying those clients that have also involved non-trivial development and collaboration, e.g. libp2p.

22 points · Open discussion

RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm·Aug 24, 2022Submission

Ask HN: Does the Ethereum foundation really not develop a post-Merge client?

TL;DR: To use the new Proof of Stake network, you'll need 2 pieces of software in parallel. It seems only one of those is developed by the Ethereum foundation - implementations of the other one are only developed by various seemingly commercial entities - despite the foundation holding $ 1 billion in assets (see comments). Now that the PoS-merge is close, I tried to find out how to actually use it. https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/ says: > After The Merge, both execution and consensus clients must be run together in order for a user to gain access to the Ethereum network. Here are the lists of implementations of those two clients: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/#execution-clients https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/#consensus-clients So they do develop an execution

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client, commonly known as "geth". It's on their own GitHub: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum But the 5 consensus clients not only have websites which aren't ethereum.org - they are in fact also hosted on different GitHub accounts: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1 (yes, this is also for eth2, see "About" at top right) https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm https://github.com/Consensys/teku Further, all of these 5 institutions seem to be companies from the looks of their website, not non-profit foundations. (Please correct me and pardon me if that is not true, I don't have the time to navigate through all these websites to figure out their precise legal status.) So is it true that there is no official reference implementation to run the post-Merge, Proof of Stake Ethereum? Only 3rd party software which is somehow endorsed but which you have to choose on your own still? Sure, more choice can be nice, but it would seem advantageous to have at least one trustworthy reference client instead of the users having to decide which of 5 commercial entities they trust?

15 points · Open discussion

pa7x1·Jul 7, 2022

There is a specification of the protocol, which is open source: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs And there are over 5 interoperable, independent and open source implementations of said specification: - https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/ - https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar - https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2 - https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm - https://github.com/ConsenSys/teku - https://github.com/sifraitech/grandine ...

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