Alexandria - Snake Charmers

Wanted: Monkey Trainer. Pedestal Builders need not apply.

I recently wrote a few blog posts describing what was needed for us to have truly functional light clients. If you haven't read those, you should go do that now. I'll wait... I also gave a talk on the same subject. About a year ago, the Eth1x research community embarked

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The winding road to functional light clients - part 1

It was nearly five years ago that we set out to build Trinity, a new "light weight" client for the Ethereum network. Geth had recently shipped the first versions of the LES protocol and we had big dreams. As often happens with big dreams, they were quickly dashed against the

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Alexandria Dev Update #4

Shortly before the Holiday break in December, we successfully spun up a test network of 20 nodes, hosting the first 1 million block headers. T TLDR: The network behaved as intended, with nodes creating and spreading advertisements via the gossip mechanism, mirroring content to fill their storage capacity and serving

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Alexandria Dev Update #3

We are on track to have the core network functionality all working with the full header chain available on the network by the beginning of Q1 2021. The next 2-3 weeks will be spent hardening the client to improve stability and expanding our test network towards a network capable of

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Alexandria Dev Update #2

Development continues at a quick pace. Currently, we are aiming to having a POC ready by the end of the year to host and serve the header chain. Content TransmissionThe last pull requests implementing the content transmission logic are being reviewed. This builds on the SSZ partial work from the