Ask HN: Does the Ethereum foundation not develop a post-Merge client?

• go-ethereum

  365 46,063 9.9 Go

  Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

  

It's on their own GitHub: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

But the 5 consensus clients not only have websites which aren't ethereum.org - they are in fact also hosted on different GitHub accounts:

• lighthouse

  124 2,724 9.7 Rust

  Ethereum consensus client in Rust (by sigp)

  

https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• lodestar

  27 1,054 9.8 TypeScript

  🌟 TypeScript Implementation of Ethereum Consensus

  

https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar

• nimbus-eth1

  6 551 9.7 Nim

  Nimbus: an Ethereum Execution Client for Resource-Restricted Devices

  

https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1 (yes, this is also for eth2, see "About" at top right)

• teku

  50 630 9.8 Java

  Open-source Ethereum consensus client written in Java

  

https://github.com/Consensys/teku

Further, all of these 5 institutions seem to be companies from the looks of their website, not non-profit foundations. (Please correct me and pardon me if that is not true, I don't have the time to navigate through all these websites to figure out their precise legal status.)

So is it true that there is no official reference implementation to run the post-Merge, Proof of Stake Ethereum?

Only 3rd party software which is somehow endorsed but which you have to choose on your own still?

Sure, more choice can be nice, but it would seem advantageous to have at least one trustworthy reference client instead of the users having to decide which of 5 commercial entities they trust?

• mist

  17 7,272 0.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued [DEPRECATED] Mist. Browse and use Ðapps on the Ethereum network.

  

I'd expect them to provide at least one full set of usable software from it, not just specifications on how to write the software - which is what they seem to only be producing now?

They already cancelled their GUI wallet some years ago (https://github.com/ethereum/mist) which was kind of weird already considering that people did have money in it already.

But you could at least resort to using geth as a terminal UI client.

Now it seems ETH holders won't be able to access their funds using fully official software at all, which is kinda "meh", no matter if you're pro-crypto or against.

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