sigp/lighthouse repository overview

⁠Lighthouse: Ethereum 2.0

An open-source Ethereum 2.0 client, written in Rust and maintained by Sigma Prime.

Documentation⁠

⁠Overview

Lighthouse is:

• Ready for use on Eth2 mainnet.
• Fully open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0.
• Security-focused. Fuzzing techniques have been continuously applied and several external security reviews have been performed.
• Built in Rust⁠, a modern language providing unique safety guarantees and excellent performance (comparable to C++).
• Funded by various organisations, including Sigma Prime, the Ethereum Foundation, ConsenSys, the Decentralization Foundation and private individuals.
• Actively involved in the specification and security analysis of the Ethereum 2.0 specification.

⁠Eth2 Deposit Contract

The Lighthouse team acknowledges 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa⁠ as the canonical Eth2 deposit contract address.

⁠Documentation

The Lighthouse Book⁠ contains information for users and developers.

The Lighthouse team maintains a blog at lighthouse.sigmaprime.io⁠ which contains periodical progress updates, roadmap insights and interesting findings.

⁠Branches

Lighthouse maintains two permanent branches:

• stable⁠: Always points to the latest stable release.
  • This is ideal for most users.
• unstable⁠: Used for development, contains the latest PRs.
  • Developers should base thier PRs on this branch.

⁠Contributing

Lighthouse welcomes contributors.

If you are looking to contribute, please head to the Contributing⁠ section of the Lighthouse book.

⁠Contact

The best place for discussion is the Lighthouse Discord server⁠. Alternatively, you may use the sigp/lighthouse gitter⁠.

Sign up to the Lighthouse Development Updates⁠ mailing list for email notifications about releases, network status and other important information.

Encrypt sensitive messages using our PGP key⁠.

⁠Donations

Lighthouse is an open-source project and a public good. Funding public goods is hard and we're grateful for the donations we receive from the community via:

• Gitcoin Grants⁠.
• Ethereum address: 0x25c4a76E7d118705e7Ea2e9b7d8C59930d8aCD3b (donation.sigmaprime.eth).