Future Plans
Nimbus is a research project and a client implementation for Ethereum 2.0 designed to perform well on embedded systems and personal mobile devices, including older smartphones with resource-restricted hardware.
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Friendly Beginnings
The Nimbus team kicked off research in March 2018 and has steadily been finalizing the blocks needed to deliver a fully stand-alone implementation of the next generation of Ethereum. Excited about new developments? Get in touch!
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Friendly Research
We’re translating the latest Ethereum 2.0 research like BN curves, BLS signatures and RANDAO games into practical, performant and reusable libraries to provide fertile exploration ground for further R&D. Want to run advanced simulations and tests? Get in touch!
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Friendly Licensing
We’re building Nimbus as a common good with liberal licensing to allow the widest deployment of Ethereum 2.0 possible. Want to integrate Nimbus in your product? Get in touch!
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Friendly Networking
We’re translating the latest Ethereum 2.0 research like BN curves, BLS signatures and RANDAO games into practical, performant and reusable libraries to provide fertile exploration ground for further R&D. Want to run advanced simulations and tests? Get in touch!
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Friendly Platform Support
The Nim language delivers safe and performant code on any platform with a C compiler available. Developing the latest RISC-V boards or simply have an old Windows machine lying around? Get in touch!
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Contribute
Nimbus is an open source initiative in which anyone can get involved. There are a number of ways to contribute:
Join the Team
We are always looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our team.
Work on Bounties
As an open source project, anyone anywhere can get involved and contribute code.
Join the Conversation
We are an open community and happy to answer your questions and help you learn more about Nimbus.
Core Contributors
We’re a diverse group of researchers, engineers, and scientists with a passion for web3 technologies. We work primarily in Nim.
Read our Blog
Check out the latest Nimbus news and blog posts:
Status Partners with the team behind the programming language Nim
To bolster research efforts for Nimbus – a sharding client for Ethereum – status.im have partnered with the core team developing the Nim programming language...
Ethereum Client Developers Conference Retrospective
A large part of what makes possible "magic internet money" occurs deep down where most people will never see it - in the actual clients. We hosted all the developers in Berlin. Find out what went down...
Introducing Nimbus, An Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client
In order to advance the collective work on scaling Ethereum, we have been building our own client, called Nimbus, which has a particular focus on sharding and resource-restricted devices...