Project idea: beacon chain light clients

[ralexstokes]

Efficient proof-of-stake light client designs are possible starting with the Altair fork of the beacon chain.

A project idea would be to prototype a beacon chain light client and help bootstrap the ecosystem around them, possibly starting with the spec here: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/dev/specs/altair/sync-protocol.md

This project would be a great way to get your hands dirty with building a protocol client as you will need to touch all the various parts of "building a client" but the light client protocol is fairly self-contained and lightweight (by design!). I'd expect anyone working on this to leave with a great understanding of Ethereum's proof-of-stake consensus and a better understanding of the issues and concerns involved with building and maintaining protocol software.

Anyone who is interested in this should reach out to me and I'm very happy to discuss ideas further and/or can help guide efforts during cohort-one.

[jeyakatsa]

Hi Alex! I'm very interested in diving deep into this, how can I help? Currently skimming through the GitHub repo.

sent you a DM on discord