beacon-APIs VS consensus-specs

Compare beacon-APIs vs consensus-specs and see what are their differences.

beacon-APIs

Collection of RESTful APIs provided by Ethereum Beacon nodes (by ethereum)

consensus-specs

Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Consensus Specifications (by ethereum)
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beacon-APIs

Posts with mentions or reviews of beacon-APIs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
  • Daily General Discussion - June 1, 2023
    5 projects | /r/ethfinance | 1 Jun 2023
    The clients are already built to conform to the execution API spec and beacon API spec, so building tools to interact with them is already client-agnostic to a great degree. If I add a custom ETH mainnet endpoint to Metamask, it doesn't care what client is providing the endpoint - only that it conforms to the spec.
  • Daily General Discussion - July 22, 2022
    3 projects | /r/ethfinance | 22 Jul 2022
    Our light client API endpoints have now been aligned to the spec discussed at Devconnect in Amsterdam. To see the updated endpoints, refer to the discussion here: https://github.com/ethereum/beacon-APIs/pull/181
  • How ETH 2.0 will help with scaling
    6 projects | /r/ethereum | 8 Apr 2021

consensus-specs

Posts with mentions or reviews of consensus-specs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing beacon-APIs and consensus-specs you can also consider the following projects:

l2beat - L2BEAT is an analytics and research website about Ethereum layer two (L2) scaling solutions.

ergo - Ergo protocol description & reference client implementation

annotated-spec - Vitalik's annotated eth2 spec. Not intended to be "the" annotated spec; other documents like Ben Edgington's https://benjaminion.xyz/eth2-annotated-spec/ also exist. This one is intended to focus more on design rationale.

scaffold-eth - 🏗 forkable Ethereum dev stack focused on fast product iterations [Moved to: https://github.com/scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth]

ethereum-org-website - Ethereum.org is a primary online resource for the Ethereum community.

rust-libp2p - The Rust Implementation of the libp2p networking stack.

EIPs - The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository

go-ethereum - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

lido-dao - Lido DAO smart contracts

pm - Project Management: Meeting notes and agenda items

prysm - Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake

rocketpool - Decentralised Ethereum Liquid Staking Protocol.