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While the current Altair specs define structures to aid light client development, one missing key aspect is the network protocol definition. Certain implementations have started defining their own REST based APIs, e.g., Lodestar at https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/blob/master/packages/api/src/routes/lightclient.ts While such APIs are useful, REST does not seem to be the ideomatic choice as the sole API available at such a low level for Ethereum. This patch introduces a libp2p based protocol to allow light clients to sync to the latest `BeaconBlockHeader` in a trustless and decentralized manner, building on top of prior work from: - @hwwhww at https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/2267 - @jinfwhuang at https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/2786 - Lodestar's REST API (also has an endpoint to fetch merkle proofs!) |
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README.md
Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Consensus Specifications
To learn more about proof-of-stake and sharding, see the PoS FAQ, sharding FAQ and the research compendium.
This repository hosts the current Ethereum proof-of-stake specifications. Discussions about design rationale and proposed changes can be brought up and discussed as issues. Solidified, agreed-upon changes to the spec can be made through pull requests.
Specs
Core specifications for Ethereum proof-of-stake clients can be found in specs. These are divided into features. Features are researched and developed in parallel, and then consolidated into sequential upgrades when ready.
Stable Specifications
| Seq. | Code Name | Fork Epoch | Specs |
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| 0 | Phase0 | 0 |
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| 1 | Altair | 74240 |
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| 2 | Bellatrix ("The Merge") |
TBD |
In-development Specifications
| Code Name or Topic | Specs | Notes |
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| Capella (tentative) |
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| EIP4844 (tentative) | ||
| Sharding (outdated) |
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| Custody Game (outdated) |
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Dependent on sharding |
| Data Availability Sampling (outdated) |
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Accompanying documents can be found in specs and include:
Additional specifications for client implementers
Additional specifications and standards outside of requisite client functionality can be found in the following repos:
Design goals
The following are the broad design goals for the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specifications:
- to minimize complexity, even at the cost of some losses in efficiency
- to remain live through major network partitions and when very large portions of nodes go offline
- to select all components such that they are either quantum secure or can be easily swapped out for quantum secure counterparts when available
- to utilize crypto and design techniques that allow for a large participation of validators in total and per unit time
- to allow for a typical consumer laptop with
O(C)resources to process/validateO(1)shards (including any system level validation such as the beacon chain)
Useful external resources
For spec contributors
Documentation on the different components used during spec writing can be found here:
Consensus spec tests
Conformance tests built from the executable python spec are available in the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Consensus Spec Tests repo. Compressed tarballs are available in releases.