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
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
A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #6
A year-end review of ChainSafe’s TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus.
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
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
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