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A Lodestar for Consensus 2024
A 2024 review of ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus.
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Lodestar's Pectra Split Vision Update
The Lodestar team proposes splitting the Pectra roadmap into two forks—PectrA and PectraB—to ensure mainnet stability, a smoother rollout, and clearer standards for feature readiness.
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Handling Generic Forks and Understanding Types in Lodestar
Explore Lodestar's guide to mastering types and forks. Learn key patterns and tools to simplify contributions and enhance your understanding of Ethereum's consensus clients.
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The Lodestar Vision for the Pectra Roadmap
the Lodestar team wanted to provide an update on how we envision proceeding with the Pectra roadmap.
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Introducing Lodestar Prover
We're excited to introduce the latest addition to our suite—Lodestar Prover, a tool for connecting consensus and execution clients, facilitating seamless and secure blockchain integrations. A disconnect for dApps? Within the Ethereum ecosystem, dApps have historically faced a challenge in establishing smooth interactions with execution clients. They depended heavily
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Lodestar Proposals for Next Electra + Prague Fork
With the implementation of Deneb/Cancun almost complete, client teams were asked to provide suggestions on inclusions to the next Electra/Prague hard fork. This blog post is to outline the combined consensus of Lodestar’s main contributors, inspired by the writings of Paradigm’s Reth team and commendation of
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A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #6
A year-end review of ChainSafe’s TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus.
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The State of Light Clients in Ethereum
At Lodestar, we've been long-time proponents of light clients, software that connects to full nodes to interact with the blockchain. As a resource-friendly and trustless alternative to running your own full node, light clients reduce the need to trust third parties. Although they don't confirm blocks, they're valuable in terms
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Retrospective Analysis of the Lodestar User Incentive Program
Authored by Phil Ngo On March 23, 2023, we announced a program to experiment with out-of-protocol incentives for solo stakers on Ethereum to switch to our consensus client, Lodestar. We did this because we wanted to add an additional incentive (beyond altruism) for independent node operators to consider trying Lodestar
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The Lodestar User Incentive Program: List of Winners & Dispute Period
The Lodestar User Incentive Program ended on August 23, 2023, @ 18:00 UTC. The goal of the program was to incentivize solo stakers to give Lodestar a try as their Ethereum consensus client. UPDATE: The dispute period concluded on October 3, 2023. Congratulations to all the 87 winners listed below
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A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #5
Authored by Phil Ngo An update on ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus Welcome back to another edition of the "A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus" series, where we share updates on our progress in building Lodestar. Join us as we highlight recent milestones and our contributions to the Ethereum protocol
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Lodestar Releases v1.2.0
Authored by Phil Ngo The Lodestar team has launched v1.2.0, a jam-packed release full of bug fixes, optimizations, and performance improvements! This was a long-overdue upgrade, so let's unpack some of the significant changes in this release. Libp2p upgraded to v0.39.2 Lodestar had been running libp2p
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A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #4
An update on ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus Welcome to another edition of "A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus," a series where we give periodic updates on our Ethereum client. See our previous edition here. After a successful Goerli testnet merge, TTD for the merge has been specified. As it
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The Road Ahead for Ethereum Light Clients
Authored by Phil Ngo New layer one blockchains promise a blazing fast decentralized future. But in reality, what we typically find is a set of sporadic non-committed users who connect to a single sponsored JSON RPC maintained by a foundation that connects to a small network of validator cartels. It's
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A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #3
Authored by Phil Ngo Q1 update for ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus Welcome to the third installment of "A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus," a series where we give periodic updates on our TypeScript Ethereum client. A lot has happened in the last three months! We updated our light client
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Lodestar Setup Guide v2
Authored by Colin Adams A comprehensive guide for Lodestar - ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus The most anticipated event in Ethereum history - The Merge - is on the horizon. The Merge is the end of Proof of Work and the full transition to Proof of Stake, a fundamental