Hi all!

Tim from ChainSafe here! :)

We're a blockchain protocol development team working on an Eth2 client called Lodestar. Aside from building a client that will be familiar to Typescript/Javascript developers, our main focus is making light clients a reality for Eth2! Together with the other official Eth2 client teams like Prysm, Lighthouse, Nimbus, Teku, etc., we are building towards a vision of a diverse, multi-client Eth2 ecosystem!

???? Our Lodestar team actually created a light client prototype ????

for the Scaling Ethereum hackathon recently, and we will release a separate blog post detailing how light clients work, and why the Eth2 Altair hardfork enables light clients to exist in the first place! (Hint: sync committees). Coming up soon, so stay tuned!!!

Lodestar's recent progress, metrics, and other oddities ????

Nevertheless, we wanted to give the Eth2 community a separate update on our progress aside from light clients. We wrote about Lodestar node stabilization, how our progress with Altair-compatibility has been, how metrics are *critical* to our success with troubleshooting and measuring our node performance, and validator performance and profitability!

Check out the blog post here!

If you're curious about Lodestar or any of our other work, we would love to hear from the community. If you'd like, drop us a message here, on Twitter, or on our Discord under the #Lodestar channel!

Ciao for now,

Tim :)

[Mods, I hope this post does not break the rules! Thought this would be a good place to share updates for our Eth2 client! My apologies in advance if this is not the right place!]