lighthouse
Ethereum consensus client in Rust (by sigp)
smartnode
The CLI package for Rocket Pool smart nodes. (by rocket-pool)
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| lighthouse | smartnode | |
|---|---|---|
| 124 | 7 | |
| 2,724 | 136 | |
| 2.9% | 8.1% | |
| 9.7 | 9.7 | |
| 6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Rust | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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
smartnode
Posts with mentions or reviews of smartnode.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-09.
- RPL unstake rules
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CRITICAL UPGRADE FOR TEKU CLIENT + Version 1.1.1 of Rocket Pool Smartnode Stack Upgrade
Fixed a bug that prevented nonce overrides from working with nonce 0. (https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/issues/169)
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Smartnode RC7 has been released, which includes a new version of Geth that has a critical exploit fix - please update ASAP
node sync and node deposit will now make sure your Beacon Chain client is running on the chain that Rocket Pool expects it to be running on before letting you do a deposit (https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/issues/158).
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Last month(s) in RocketPool - June 9th - 30th July
https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/commits/testnet)
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Rocketpool node on RasPi for additional security
As many here who plan to operate a Rocketpool node probably know, the hot wallet required by the node software is a bit of a hot topic (pun intended). I opened an issue about this some time ago, and there are efforts underway by the developer team to solve this issue. Basically there will be a way to define a separate and locked withdrawal-address, where any withdrawals and RPL claims will be paid out to. This is an important security feature and should definitely be used for mainnet.
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create rocketpool validator keys offline?
Relevant issue on github about this: https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/issues/83
- Rocket Pool has successfully included Teku as a staking client in their smartnode staking platform
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lighthouse and smartnode you can also consider the following projects:
prysm - Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake
rocketpool-go - A Golang library for interacting with the Rocket Pool network.
nimbus-eth2 - Nim implementation of the Ethereum Beacon Chain
rocketpool - Decentralised Ethereum Liquid Staking Protocol.
lodestar - 🌟 TypeScript Implementation of Ethereum Consensus
smartnode-install - The install script for a Rocket Pool smart node.
go-ethereum - Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
docs.rocketpool.net - Rocket Pool Documentation & Guide Hub
Nethermind - A robust execution client for Ethereum node operators.
rp-pi-guide - Documentation on how to install and run Rocket Pool on a Raspberry Pi.
Parity - (deprecated) The fast, light, and robust client for the Ethereum mainnet.
rocketpool-research
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lighthouse vs nimbus-eth2
smartnode vs rocketpool
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smartnode vs smartnode-install
lighthouse vs go-ethereum
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lighthouse vs Nethermind
smartnode vs rp-pi-guide
lighthouse vs Parity
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