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Polygon proposal released today to migrate it’s PoS chain to a zkEVM. This means $2 billion in assets, millions of users, tons of apps and more apps to come will now be secured by Ethereum.
This is huge. And kudos to the Polygon team for following through. I remember there being doubts that they’d actually stay Ethereum-centric and they’re definitely doing that here.
This is very good news. Polygon team keeps on delivering, and doing it in right order. My bet is, they'll have two trustless rollups before Optimism decentralizes.
I've been checking gm.xyz all the time, but it's absolutely dead. Like, ded dead; like 3 active users dead.
I have no strong desire to stay on reddit (I've quit before, coming back to learn about ethereum a couple years ago). If there's an active community on a non-garbage platform, I'll check it out. kbin is ok ... I think it's very niche and barebones.
activitypub link aggregators like kbin and lemmy are still really immature and have technical and UX kinks to work out. I don't think there will be more momentum until it's more polished.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've got a brand new Ethereum execution client, Reth.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Reth is entering its alpha with version 0.1.0 under the permissive Apache/MIT license. We are inviting node operators and users to run nodes and use Reth’s crates to build exciting EVM-centric infrastructure.
Currently it only supports archive sync, but they're working on the other sync modes:
Reth currently only provides archive sync. We intend to provide more granular storage and syncing options in the near future (like full node & snapshots), which you can track on Github. Our ultimate goal is to allow running a node with the minimal storage requirements needed for your needs.
Once it's out of alpha, this will bring our total up to 5 production Ethereum execution clients. Ethereum is the only chain where you can see this kind of diversity, folks. You don't get this kind of treatment with Bitcoin, Cardano or Solana.
Yes, I believe it is the client that killed Akula. But I didn’t realize that was controversial. I thought the Akula dev gave up just because the new team was better funded and his effort wasn’t needed anymore.
If you find out what the controversy was, I would be curious to know.
Anyone have experience with Lodestar? Running a relay (Aestus) requires CL clients with a little bit of different code to implement relay-specific behavior. Currently only Lighthouse and Prysm have the appropriate changes, and Prysm has been giving us some weird issues with very high CPU and RAM usage, so we're a little Lighthouse-heavy. I love Lighthouse, but we'd like to diversify a bit. Lodestar has an open issue to implement the necessary changes, which is promising.
But Lodestar is probably the only CL client that I've never worked with. I know it's probably easy enough to figure out how to build a docker image for it, and look up the usual set of command line options, but I'm trying to find whatever excuses I can to post to kbin. So, any thoughts on Lodestar?
I wish I did. Back in the day, I went down the list from Prysm to Nimbus, had quite a bit of trouble on Nimbus, and never continued to the final spot on the CL list with Lodestar.
Someday we'll have @superphiz start up a m/ethstaker here!
Yep, we're being dragged up in fiat along with BTC'd typical dominance run at the end of a bear. Ride it out, adjust portfolios, manage risk... these months aren't bad of course, but less fun with gramps taking charge. Ah well, happens every cycle. The tunnel's end is nearing!