Ethereum [ETH] 2.0 Client; Lighthouse project released by developers

Ethereum [ETH] 2.0 Client; Lighthouse project released by developers

Recently, Sigma Prime [SigP] a team of Australia-based developers housed in Sydney, released their new open source Ethereum 2.0 client called ‘Lighthouse’. The SigP team briefly explains the fundamentals of the project, their accomplishments, and the roadmap for the future.

The team revealed that the idea behind the Ethereum 2.0 specification caught their eye and compelled them to contribute to it. They were confident that they could apply their resources to help realize the vision. After this, SigP began its work and wrote the code in a repository named  “rust_beacon_chain,” it said.

The team picked off from there realizing that they had the beginnings of a full-fledged client. They stated:

“We decided to go ahead with the client build and renamed the repo to Lighthouse, figuring that a seaside lighthouse would be a rusty beacon of sorts. The project was born.”

SigP further went on to discuss the accomplishments they achieved while developing the project. They were able to develop a SimpleSerialize Rust Library, discover a bias in the pseudo-random validated shuffling algorithm, research the serialization formats for P2P messaging, and Rust implementations of shuffling and validator role-assignment.

The team’s upcoming work includes implementing a syncing logic and producing as many design artifacts as possible. They stated that the in the upcoming weeks the team will witness a benchmark on Beacon Chain block validation. They will also progress on SimpleSerialize and work on the documentation of the validator role-delegation function.

Twitterati Michael Outar tweeted:

“Excited for the future of Ethereum.”

Earlier in 2017, Vitalik Buterin, the Co-Founder of Ethereum discussed his vision about Ethereum 2.0. After the birth of the idea, many developers like PegaSys, Prysmatic Labs, Status and Nimbus have begun creating a beacon chain and sharding client for the Ethereum 2.0.

Recently, Rocket Pool, a decentralized Ethereum Proof of Stake [PoS] pool, posted a blog outlining the ongoing developments on the Ethereum 2.0. In the blog, they stated that since Ethereum was decentralized in multiple levels, the development of Ethereum 2.0 was not owned by any corporation.

The development team stated:

“Ethereum is operationally decentralized (no single entity is responsible for keeping the blockchain running).”

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