Scaling Ethereum with PeerDAS and Distributed Blob Building
Exploring challenges, optimisations, key metrics and impact on node operators.
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Michael Sproul
Researcher at Sigma PrimeSydney, Australia
Michael is a Rust engineer working on Lighthouse. He is passionate about using strong types to help build fast & correct software for the decentralised future. @sproulM_ on Twitter.
9 posts by Michael Sproul
Lighthouse tree-states ELI5 part 1
Have your cake and eat it too: An introduction to in-memory tree-states.
New Blockprint Graphs and Visuals
Announcing a graphical interface for Blockprint
Unbundling attacks on MEV relays using RPC
Disclosure of a new unbundling attack on MEV relays, and associated mitigations
Optimising Attestation Packing
Optimality analysis of Lighthouse's attestation packing algorithm
Lighthouse Update #41
Withdrawals, EIP-4844 and more
Lighthouse Update #37
Altair hard-fork testnets, upcoming v1.5.0 release
Why You Should Switch to Lighthouse
Making a case for Lighthouse in a multi-client Ethereum future.
Lighthouse Update #22
Lighthouse Pre-Interop Update
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