portal-network-specs
nimbus-eth2
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portal-network-specs
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Signal founder’s constructive criticism of web3
Other blockchain networks struggle because it's not trivial for wallets to have embedded nodes. It's not even really easy to do on Ethereum since light clients are hard to use, but this is improving with better infrastructure. The other hurdle for the Ethereum ecosystem is the reliance on the web stack, which trains users that the default way to interact with these networks is through a web browser, which is another limiting factor for being able to run your own node. And so yeah, obviously people will rely on Infura. But it doesn't have to be like that, this is a just result of the technology being limited (irrationally self-imposed, with the reliance on web browsers) rather than users' true desires.
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POKT was one of the most interesting projects on ETH Denver, POKT North Star (v1) release is going to help decentralize the entire web3 in a big way
The solution is to build a different structure that eliminates the antagonistic relationships between the parties, where there's no economic advantage to scale. There's this project directly backed by EF doing that but that doesn't have VC backing and there's no token so obviously there's no hype machine pushing it along.
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Web3APIs vs Ethers.Js?
Or better, eventually, do in a distributed way with something like the portal network: https://github.com/ethereum/portal-network-specs
- Daily General Discussion - January 9, 2022
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My First Impressions of Web3
From the post:
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will...
Fair enough, but there are active efforts to develop ultra-light clients for Ethereum together with the concept of "portal network":
https://github.com/ethereum/portal-network-specs/
https://our.status.im/nimbus-fluffly/
> there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no acknowledgement that if successful there will ultimately be billions (!) more clients than servers.
I would not say there's "no acknowledgement" of this; depending on how deep you are in the space, it's pretty obvious that the goal is to have layered networks and mission specific networks (storage vs. messaging vs. consensus), all economically incentivized, that are p2p through and through, from the resource constrained devices of end consumers to the staking nodes that secure the networks. That's the hope, the goal, and the focus of ongoing efforts.
The opposite of the missing word is "a node in a p2p network".
The points made about the difficulty in evolving protocols quickly are not lost on me, but I guess I'm more optimistic than the author that it will happen relatively quickly in coming years, including this one. In the process, there will be opportunities seized where the protocols fall short and half-measures or worse (with respect to decentralization) will generate excitement for a time. That seems like "growing pains" to me.
- The Portal Network
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Impromptu technical AMA on history expiry
Older blocks, transactions and receipts/logs would still be accessible through dedicated sub-protocols (eg. the Portal Network) or externally developed protocols (eg. TheGraph), in addition to a much smaller but still sufficient number of volunteer nodes and block explorers. Note that many dapps are already moving their historical data queries to TheGraph and similar protocols for efficiency.
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State Network DHT - Development Update #2 - Eth1.x Research
Does this help? https://github.com/ethereum/stateless-ethereum-specs/wiki/Glossary
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Making the ecosystem more light-client friendly
Reorganize the p2p network to make providing proofs simpler and cheaper; see Piper Merriam's work on this.
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Weak statelessness and/or state expiry: coming soon (x-post from EthMagicians)
Piper Merriam's work on distributed state storage and state and witness availability: https://ethresear.ch/t/scalable-transaction-gossip/8660 and https://github.com/ethereum/stateless-ethereum-specs/pull/54
nimbus-eth2
- Nim v2.0 Released
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Crystal 1.9.1 Is Released
Agreed! There's a couple of fairly large projects in Nim: https://nimbus.team/ (https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2) or https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Though there's still friction points I've been happy seeing the ecosystem grow lately. The compiler has seen a lot of bug fixes lately too which helps.
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Daily General Discussion - June 22, 2023
Pretty big update for Nimbus out today, it's been a long time coming: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v23.6.0
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erigon sync log correct?
consensus client/execution client -> ERIGON v2.45.2 and NIMBUS v23.5.1
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[1 Year Review] Status still hasn't released anything or gained any real market share in private messaging
In the same year their beacon chain client followed Bellatrix (Merge) and Capella upgrades without a hitch, which is in many ways more impressive than a messenger.
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Daily General Discussion - May 19, 2023
Nimbus claims to have a solution to the loss of finality problem that was caused by old attestations, by dramatically speeding up the verification of those attestations: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/4911
- Daily General Discussion - May 12, 2023
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Daily General Discussion - May 9, 2023
Seems they just released 23.5.0, to fix many of the issues we've been having: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v23.5.0
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Ethereum's pending withdrawals total $1.34 billion after Shapella
https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2 69 contributors
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Daily General Discussion - March 31, 2023
Daily Goerli: Was getting a lot of missed attestations with nimbus and after some back and forth with tersec, we confirmed that timeouts communicating with web3signer were the culprit. A fix should be merged soon.
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lodestar - 🌟 TypeScript Implementation of Ethereum Consensus
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libsignal - Home to the Signal Protocol as well as other cryptographic primitives which make Signal possible.