prysm VS consensus-specs

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

prysm

Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake (by prysmaticlabs)

consensus-specs

Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Consensus Specifications (by ethereum)
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prysm consensus-specs
134 158
3,348 3,427
1.2% 2.0%
9.7 9.6
4 days ago 6 days ago
Go Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
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.

prysm

Posts with mentions or reviews of prysm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.

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 prysm and consensus-specs you can also consider the following projects:

lighthouse - Ethereum consensus client in Rust

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

go-ethereum - Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

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

nimbus-eth2 - Nim implementation of the Ethereum Beacon Chain

ergo - Ergo protocol description & reference client implementation

eth2-staking-rewards-calculator - [Archived, see README] Allows you to calculate the Ethereum 2.0 staking rewards on a day-by-day basis (useful for tax purposes).

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.

Nethermind - A robust execution client for Ethereum node operators.

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

teku - Open-source Ethereum consensus client written in Java

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