Announcement 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
state-availability The winding road to functional light clients - part 3 You should read part 1 and part 2 first. Most wallet software depends on centralized providers like Infura. If we want things to be different, we need a new type of light client capable of running on low-resource devices. In this post we'll cover
state-availability The winding road to functional light clients - part 2 You should read part 1 first. It's 2021. Ethereum went live a little more than five years ago. There's currently no reliable lightweight way to interact with the protocol without using a centralized provider. Various research efforts have demonstrated that the functionality can be
state-availability 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,