go-ethereum
Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol (by ethereum)
lighthouse
Ethereum consensus client in Rust (by sigp)
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| go-ethereum | lighthouse | |
|---|---|---|
| 365 | 124 | |
| 46,000 | 2,724 | |
| 2.1% | 2.6% | |
| 9.9 | 9.7 | |
| 1 day ago | about 8 hours ago | |
| Go | Rust | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
go-ethereum
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-ethereum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.
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Ethereum Foundation removes their canary
Even more relevant would be the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repo (where people submit proposals to change the spec):
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs
Or the go-ethereum execution client (the most popular execution client):
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How I Contributed One Line of Code to Ethereum
Geth - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
- Geth v1.13.5: Further fixes to path state scheme quirks
- Geth v1.13.3: Pebble fixes and prep work for the upcoming Cancun hard fork
- Goerli bootnodes
- Geth v1.12.1 is released
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Geth online pruning ETA
Go ahead and prune. Pbss progress can be followed here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/25963
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How are blockchains built and deployed?
you may as well just look at the Ethereum reference implementation: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
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Daily General Discussion - June 18, 2023
Interestingly, this was mitigated in Geth v1.11.4 this March, so should no longer be a concern on Ethereum, though the authors note that forks e.g. BSC and ETC may still be vulnerable.
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Bot for GitHub/Lab Releases
I want to create a bot that sends messages once new releases of certain GitHub/Gitlab repo’s ( -https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases -https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases -https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/releases -https://github.com/dashpay/dash/releases -https://github.com/Team-Kujira/core/tags -https://gitlab.com/thorchain/thornode/-/releases ) have been released.
lighthouse
Posts with mentions or reviews of lighthouse.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
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On Implementation of Distributed Protocols
Lighthouse — an Ethereum consensus client (written in Rust);
- Daily General Discussion - July 5, 2023
- Lighthouse Release v4.3.0
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Daily General Discussion - May 25, 2023
Daily Goerli: A whole lot more detail on the lighthouse db corruption issue I posted about previously. There's a warning that's been quite frequent on my erigon nodes for a while that doesn't seem to have any impact on its performance. I asked if it should be downgraded to INFO here.
- Lighthouse Release v4.2.0 (Fast Aging Alien)
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Did I really waited 259 days and missed a 2,29 ethereum block proposal?
According to lighthouse team, the root cause was beacon node waited too long before requesting the payload header. All details here : https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/4312
- Lighthouse Release v4.1.0 (Uncle Steve)
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Various validator issues around Shapella
Update LH to 4.0.2-rc.0 More info here https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v4.0.2-rc.0
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Crypto’s Ethereum Network Completes Key Software Upgrade Without a Hitch
Which is not true... full nodes are consuming a lot of CPU now... hot-fix was released, but didn't solve the problem completely: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v4.0.2-rc.0 ... more hot-fixes will be needed
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Ethereum's pending withdrawals total $1.34 billion after Shapella
https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse 142 contributors
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-ethereum and lighthouse you can also consider the following projects:
Nethermind - A robust execution client for Ethereum node operators.
prysm - Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake
web3.py - A python interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and ecosystem.
nimbus-eth2 - Nim implementation of the Ethereum Beacon Chain
besu - An enterprise-grade Java-based, Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum client https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/besu
lodestar - 🌟 TypeScript Implementation of Ethereum Consensus
cosmos-sdk - :chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
core-geth - A highly configurable Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
Parity - (deprecated) The fast, light, and robust client for the Ethereum mainnet.
ethers-rs - Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust. https://docs.rs/ethers