Lighthouse Attestation Simulator
Introduction to the Lighthouse Attestation Simulator
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Paul Hauner
Researcher at Sigma PrimeSydney, Australia
Paul is a co-founder of Sigma Prime and a core team member of Sydney Homeless Connect. He has a keen interest in consensus mechanisms and information security. @paulhauner on Github.
27 posts by Paul Hauner
Lighthouse Update #41
Withdrawals, EIP-4844 and more
Lighthouse Update #40
Merge progress update
Lighthouse Update #39
Merge progress and planning
Lighthouse Update #38
Kintsugi testnets and attestation performance
Lighthouse Update #37
Altair hard-fork testnets, upcoming v1.5.0 release
Lighthouse Update #36
Successes with merge testnets, plans for a v1.4.0 release.
Lighthouse Update #35
Works on Altair and "The Merge" started.
Lighthouse Update #34
An update on improvements to Lighthouse aimed at increasing validator rewards and decreasing server costs.
Lighthouse Update #33
Plans for Lighthouse over the coming year, including a summary of the state of research and development in Eth2.
Lighthouse Update #32
Outlines the plan for Lighthouse to reach mainnet
Lighthouse Update #31 (Deposit Contract Launch)
Deposit Contract Launch
Lighthouse Update #26
v0.12.1 spec update, Discv5 rewrite, Raspberry Pi support and security review update
Lighthouse Update #24
v0.11.1 Testnets
Lighthouse Update #23
Implementing v0.11.0
Lighthouse Update #20
Lessons learned from the first testnet
Lighthouse Update #19 - Public Testnet
Announcing a Lighthouse public testnet
Lighthouse Update #13
Targeting Lighthouse's first release, discovery with discv5, new and improved fork-choice algorithm
Lighthouse Update #10
Passing state transition tests, re-licensing, merkle caching, p2p development + more.
Lighthouse Update #07
Setting expectations for March testnet, achievements and next steps.
Lighthouse Update #06
Preparing for testnet, project management and applying additional resources.
Lighthouse Update #05
Tweet-storm update: Hiring, SydEth, funding, gRPC.
Lighthouse Update #04
Quiet week: New regular contributor, works on testing framework, spec updates and improved utils.
Lighthouse Update #01
Lighthouse progress update: BLS, SimpleSerialize, block validation benchmarks and more.
Lighthouse Update #00
Announcing Lighthouse, a Rust implementation of the Ethereum 2.0 specification featuring proof-of-stake and sharding.
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