Soldøgn Interop Recap: Glamsterdam & ePBS
A recap of Soldøgn Interop, covering Lighthouse's work on Glamsterdam and progress toward implementing Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation.
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Your first ZK vulnerabilities: From ZeroKnowledge of ZK to OneKnowledge
An introduction to ZK circuit security, exploring fundamental mental models for creating and thinking about ZK circuits. Learn about under-constrained variable vulnerabilities that appear in ZK code through a practical Circom example.
Fusaka's Impact On Smart Contract Security
A summary of Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade and its implications on smart contract functionality.
The Ultimate Guide to the Top for Security Researchers: Setting Sail
A comprehensive four-part series guide for security researchers who want to rise faster, build reputation, and make lasting impact in the web3 security space, from foundations to mastery and consistent results.
By Shealtielanz
The Economics of MEV in Cross-Chain Bridge Exploits: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
An explanation of how MEV affects cross-chain bridge exploits and the incentives driving them.
Pectra's Impact On Smart Contract Security
A summary of Ethereum's Pectra upgrade and its implications on smart contract functionality.
OPINION: The case against EIP-7732 for Glamsterdam
The case against EIP-7732 for Glamsterdam
By Dapplion
OPINION: Glamsterdam's Headliner
My thoughts on Glamsterdam's Headliner
By Mark Mackey
The Pectra Holesky Incident
This article analyzes the Pectra upgrade on Holesky that resulted in long non-finality and adverse network conditions. We explore ways the Lighthouse team recovered from non-finality and how current and future optimizations will make the Lighthouse client more robust during periods of non-finality.
Unraveling a Curious Edge Case in EigenLayer's Slashing Accounting
Examining an interesting edge case discovered in EigenLayer's beacon chain slashing calculation that affects withdrawable share calculations.
IPv6 in Lighthouse
for IPv6 Support in Ethereum
Lighthouse NAT Configuration
A guide to understanding, configuring and debugging NAT configurations to maximize a Lighthouse client's performance.
NEAR Smart Contract Auditing: Storage
In this article, we dive into the storage system of the NEAR blockchain. We'll explore how storage works on NEAR, how to use it securely, and highlight some of the common pitfalls.
Scaling Ethereum with PeerDAS and Distributed Blob Building
Exploring challenges, optimisations, key metrics and impact on node operators.
By Jimmy Chen , Michael Sproul
Siren Features that Enhance the Lighthouse Experience
Explore features from Siren that enhance the Lighthouse experience.
By Mavrik
Lighthouse tree-states ELI5 part 1
Have your cake and eat it too: An introduction to in-memory tree-states.
By Dapplion , Michael Sproul
Forge Testing Leveling
Enhancing Forge testing with fuzzing and invariant testing for smart contract security.
By Dimaz Wijaya
The Effects of Ethereum's Upgrades on Smart Contracts
A summary of Ethereum's upgrades and their implications on smart contract functionality.
Missed Attestations - A technical guide to understanding and fine-tuning Lighthouse
A technical guide to understanding, diagnosing and fine-tuning Lighthouse for missed attestations.
Lighthouse Attestation Simulator
Introduction to the Lighthouse Attestation Simulator
By Paul Hauner
On the Importance of the Security Alliance
About the new Security Alliance and why we support it
Inactivity leak under MaxEB (EIP-7251)
Explore the effects of EIP-7251 (Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE) on the beacon chain's inactivity leak mechanism
By Dapplion
Lighthouse User Survey Results
An exploration of the results from the first Lighthouse User Survey.
By Mac Ladson
Quic Support
A theoretically faster way to connect lighthouse nodes was included in Lighthouse v4.5.0
Using Proxies: An Essential Guide
A practical guide to safe choices and best practices when deploying proxies for a project
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
How-To: Update a Lighthouse Node
A HOW-TO article detailing how to update your Lighthouse node.
Understanding Attestation Packing Efficiencies
Analysis of Attestation Packing Efficiency throughout time.
By Mac Ladson
Why You Should Switch to Lighthouse
Making a case for Lighthouse in a multi-client Ethereum future.
Eth2 on MacOS: A beginners guide for the technically-challenged
Lighthouse on macOS: beginners tutorial.
Rogue Key Attack on Gennaro et al. DKG for Polynomials of Excessive Degree
A rogue key attack on Gennaro et al. DKG for polynomials of excessive degree, allowing full control of the private key
By Kirk Baird
Status ENS Integration: Smart Contract Security Review
This post shares with the public details of a security review performed by Sigma Prime, which targeted an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) registrar developed by Status.
Lighthouse Security Considerations
Introduction to Rust security and fuzzing, with particular focus on our ethereum 2.0 client, lighthouse.
A Detailed Introduction to RSA Cryptography
A comprehensive discussion and derivation of RSA cryptography, including the generalisation to multiple primes.
Purity in the EVM
A definition of purity in the Ethereum EVM with strategies for detecting purity on-chain.
By Paul Hauner
Solidity Security: Comprehensive list of known attack vectors and common anti-patterns
This post aims to be a relatively in-depth and up-to-date introductory post detailing the past mistakes that have been made by Solidity developers in an effort to prevent future devs from repeating history.
Proof-of-work in cryptocurrencies: an accessible introduction
This article provides an accessible explanation of the "proof-of-work" consensus algorithm as used in Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other cryptocurrencies.
By Paul Hauner
Understanding Equihash: Mathematical Optimizations and Zcash
Overview of the Equihash mining algorithm and potential mathematical optimisation thought experiments.
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