A Deeper Look at Sigma Prime's Lighthouse: An Open-Source Ethereum 2.0 Client

Lighthouse: an open-source Ethereum 2.0 client, written in Rusthttps://t.

Introduced as a new Ethereum 2.0 client, Lighthouse project is making waves for cybersecurity enterprises.

Lighthouse is maintained by Sigma Prime via a Github repository, which serves as a gatekeeper and digital directory for projects, files and other items pertinent to the project.

The encryption rabbit hole plunged programming into a code called Rust, the conceptual language written into Lighthouse's syntax.

Paul Hauner, co-founder of Sigma Prime and a core developer of Lighthouse, said a majority of 2018 was spent experimenting with various PoW algorithms before confirming Ethereum 2.0 as the best standard performance evaluation.

"At some point, we realized that we had the beginnings of a fully-fledged client on our hands and building that client out would provide great benefit to the ecosystem and greatly expand the skill set of our team. We decided to go ahead with the client build and renamed the repo to 'Lighthouse,' figuring that a seaside lighthouse would be a 'rusty beacon' of sorts. The project was born."

Research is a process, which is why the Lighthouse team expected to encounter barriers in the system.

"We prefer to see depreciation instead of stubborn persistence. This highlights a core ethos of the Lighthouse project: We see Ethereum as a protocol, not a collection of products. We do not aim to ship our product as fast as possible; instead, we aim to contribute to the establishment of a secure, decentralized and efficient protocol. Lighthouse must always prioritize the protocol over itself."

Lighthouse is slated to disseminate utilization from Libp2p, the modular network stack that allows applications to operate independently.

The gestation period for Lighthouse and Sigma Prime may appear convoluted.