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🌟 TypeScript Implementation of Ethereum Consensus (by ChainSafe)
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Ethereum consensus client in Rust (by sigp)
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| lodestar | lighthouse | |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 124 | |
| 1,053 | 2,718 | |
| 2.8% | 2.6% | |
| 9.8 | 9.7 | |
| 7 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| TypeScript | Rust | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
lodestar
Posts with mentions or reviews of lodestar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
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Help needed to navigate in lodestar code
I think I found it. This pull request helped me: https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/pull/3782
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Daily General Discussion - May 21, 2023
Somer's guides are awesome and extremely thorough, but they help you learn to build a validator from scratch. In practice, I always download client binaries rather than building from scratch. You can find the lodestar releases page here.
- Lodestar v1.8.0 released!
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Ethereum's pending withdrawals total $1.34 billion after Shapella
https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar 63 contributors
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Daily General Discussion - April 6, 2023
My mainnet lodestar node crashed today. Thankfully, the validator process switched over to my backup lighthouse node without missing a single attestation.
- Lodestar v1.7.0 released (Shapella ready)
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Daily General Discussion - December 28, 2022
Daily Goerli: I've been periodically running into some issues when updating nethermind which require force killing the Nethermind.Runner process. Recently had an issue where geth in lodestar-geth thought it was waiting for updates from lodestar, but lodestar was reporting connection refused. A restart of geth fixed it. I'm currently running into No state found for id 'head' in all lodestar instances, which was supposed to be fixed by this PR. I also recently encountered a long stack error from erigon in prysm-erigon when closing to update, but restarting both clients allowed sync to resume.
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How to merge an Ethereum network right from the genesis block
The following sections outline how to configure an execution-layer client and a consensus-layer client so that they have everything in place to execute the entire merge already in the genesis block. Here, we'll use Geth and Lodestar.
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Gnosis Merge-ready release clients
Consensus Layer client ✅ Teku v22.11.0: https://github.com/ConsenSys/teku/releases/tag/22.11.0 ✅ Lodestar v1.2.2: https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/releases/tag/v1.2.2 🟡 Lighthouse: coming soon 🟡 Nimbus: coming soon ❌ Prysm: advised to switch to other clients
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 lodestar and lighthouse you can also consider the following projects:
nimbus-eth2 - Nim implementation of the Ethereum Beacon Chain
prysm - Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake
web3-react - A simple, maximally extensible, dependency minimized framework for building modern Ethereum dApps
go-ethereum - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
zksync - zkSync: trustless scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum
Nethermind - A robust execution client for Ethereum node operators.
teku - Open-source Ethereum consensus client written in Java
Parity - (deprecated) The fast, light, and robust client for the Ethereum mainnet.
nitter-instances - Automated uptime monitoring of Nitter instances.
ethers-rs - Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust. https://docs.rs/ethers