Light Client Planning Tracker

[philknows]

📋 Milestone/Epic Tracker

This tracker is to monitor issues and PRs relating to light clients for Lodestar. This issue deprecates #2986.
Lodestar's Light Client Demo: https://github.com/ChainSafe/eth2-light-client-demo

🟥 High Priority

• Align light client API #3952

🟧 Medium Priority

• Build separate light-client server #2985
• Light client API standardization #3079
• Light client integration into p2p network #3077
• The light client demo UI crashes with Unhandled Rejection (AbortError): Fetch is aborted #3618

🟨 Low Priority

External Light Client References

• Define libp2p protocol for light client sync ethereum/consensus-specs#2802
  • For implementation
• Add lightclient routes ethereum/beacon-APIs#181
• [WIP] Light client protocol + Req/Resp interaction ethereum/consensus-specs#2267

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Medium-Long Term Planning

1. Consensus Layer

• Light client server: Allows head sync, but is censorable.
• Improve approaches to minimizing censorship (Multiple end servers, P2P layers (Portal Network?)
• Incentives Research (How do we find a way to prove real usage to compensate and incentivize running light client servers?)
  Minimize censorable (End servers instead of one. Less censorable, P2P layer like portal?)
  Incentives?? Find a way to prove real usage of a network with

2. Networking Layer

• Browsers not p2p friendly

3. Userland

• Get useful data - L1 data (e.g. balances)
  • Query account balance + ERC20 balance: Pre-requisite Implement eth_getProof ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo#1590

4. Layer 2 Light Clients

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[holgerd77]

Hi guys,
could you drop the URL from your demo on the Lightclient Summit in Amsterdam here? 🙂

[dapplion]

Hi guys, could you drop the URL from your demo on the Lightclient Summit in Amsterdam here? slightly_smiling_face

Added to the body! Also linking here Live demo: https://github.com/ChainSafe/eth2-light-client-demo

[philknows]

Not a scalable tracking solution for issues. Closing.