Lodestar is a Typescript ecosystem for Ethereum consensus, developed by ChainSafe Systems. Our flagship product is our production-capable beacon chain and validator client. In addition, we maintain public repositories of useful tools for public use. Some of these libraries include BLS, SSZ, Discv5, Gossipsub, and Noise.
RetroPGF Received :
79,662.51 OP
Appears in:
0.80 ballots
Category:
Infrastructure
We are a team of nine: One Project Manager, six full-time protocol engineers, and two devops engineers. We occasionally have community freelancers contribute work to the Lodestar open source project and our surrounding libraries.
Active work is being done to support the OP Stack by enabling EIP-4844 to benefit L2s such as Optimism, reducing tx costs of Layer 2 fees and increasing client diversity at the Layer 1 protocol level. Additionally, Lodestar team members have been working on side projects such as Zipline which used the OP Cannon verifiable computation tools to develop a light client, enabling a trustless bridge.
We are funded with grants from the Ethereum Foundation, Gitcoin donations and open source funding contracts for JS ecosystem open sourced libraries. We are supported by ChainSafe Systems and are a node operator on Lido Finance.