lighthouse VS go-ethereum

Compare lighthouse vs go-ethereum and see what are their differences.

lighthouse

Ethereum consensus client in Rust (by sigp)

go-ethereum

Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol (by ethereum)
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
lighthouse go-ethereum
123 365
2,706 45,582
3.4% 2.0%
9.7 9.9
about 10 hours ago 1 day ago
Rust Go
Apache License 2.0 GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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.

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 2023-05-25.
  • Daily General Discussion - May 25, 2023
    4 projects | /r/ethfinance | 25 May 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.
  • Ethereum's pending withdrawals total $1.34 billion after Shapella
    10 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 13 Apr 2023
    https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse 142 contributors
  • Daily General Discussion - April 12, 2023
    5 projects | /r/ethfinance | 12 Apr 2023
  • Daily General Discussion - March 23, 2023
    6 projects | /r/ethfinance | 23 Mar 2023
    If you use Lighthouse and haven't updated to v4.0.0 yet then don't, if you have then there's a v4.0.1-rc.0 hotfix out for a bug.
  • Daily General Discussion - March 22, 2023
    4 projects | /r/ethfinance | 22 Mar 2023
    Lighthouse v4.0.0, which is ready for Shapella on main net, is out.
  • Daily General Discussion - January 11, 2023
    4 projects | /r/ethfinance | 11 Jan 2023
  • Is there any service that sends notifications when I have to update by validator software (i.e. consensus (e.g. lighthouse) and execution (e.g. geth)?
    7 projects | /r/ethstaker | 20 Dec 2022
    Lighthouse: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases
  • Lighthouse Release v3.3.0 (Mr. Frundles)
    2 projects | /r/ethstaker | 23 Nov 2022
    #!/bin/bash # Assumption 1: you have lighthouse running on ubuntu with systemctl # Assumption 2: lighthouse binary is in /home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/lighthouse # If otherwise, change the script accordingly latestVersion="3.3.0" ##Change this before running, see https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases logFile="/home/lighthouse/lighthouseUpdate.log" filename="lighthouse-v"$latestVersion"-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz" url="https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/download/v"$latestVersion"/lighthouse-v"$latestVersion"-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz" #remove the old logfile rm $logFile currentVersion=$(/home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/lighthouse --version) currentVersion=${currentVersion:0:25} echo 'lighthouse current version' $currentVersion echo 'Now updating lighthouse to v'$latestVersion', process started' cd lighthouse-bin/ echo 'Downloading v'$latestVersion' from ' $url wget $url > $logFile 2>&1 echo 'Unpacking '$filename tar -xvf $filename >> $logFile 2>&1 echo 'Stoppping validator and beacon node (can take some time)' sudo systemctl stop lighthousevalidator >> $logFile 2>&1 sudo systemctl stop lighthousebeacon >> $logFile 2>&1 echo 'Backing up the old bin to /home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/_lighthouse' mv /home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/lighthouse /home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/_lighthouse echo 'Replacing the new binary' mv lighthouse /home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/lighthouse installedVersion=$(/home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/lighthouse --version) installedVersion=${installedVersion:0:25} echo 'Checking installed version: ' $installedVersion echo 'Starting beacon and validator node (can take some time)' sudo systemctl start lighthousebeacon >> $logFile 2>&1 sudo systemctl start lighthousevalidator >> $logFile 2>&1 echo 'Removing the tar compressed file '$filename rm $filename echo "Process completed! Check the logs in "$logFile echo 'if it failed, you could restore the old version('$currentVersion') with mv /home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/_lighthouse /home/lighthouse/.cargo/bin/lighthouse'
    2 projects | /r/ethstaker | 23 Nov 2022
  • Daily General Discussion - October 25, 2022
    3 projects | /r/ethfinance | 25 Oct 2022
    The fix is being tracked in this PR: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3658

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lighthouse and go-ethereum you can also consider the following projects:

prysm - Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake

Nethermind - A robust execution client for Ethereum node operators.

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

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.

bor - Official repository for the Polygon Blockchain

solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language

solana - Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.