state-availability - Snake Charmers

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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 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 the Ethereum state, what it looks

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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 built as long as you have

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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