Nimbus Team

Nimbus Team

Ethereum is green

Preamble: energy and power The unit of energy we’ll use in this post is the kilowatt-hour (kWh). This quantity is called “one unit” on electricity bills, and it costs a domestic user about 12 cents in the US. When discussing power, we’ll use kilowatt-hours per day (kWh/d)

The importance of client diversity leading to the merge

Note that Nimbus tends towards privacy by default making it harder for crawlers to detect it - nevertheless, the magnitude of the skewed client distribution in the above image still stands Last week we saw a small incident occur on the Beacon Chain (see here for a more complete write-up)

Fluffy: ultra-light client for Ethereum

How can we design networks that allow for clients to show up with small amounts of data, contribute to the network, and for those contributions to be meaningful? – Piper Merriam We are delighted to announce that Nimbus will be joining the Ethereum Foundation’s Portal Network team as one of

Nimbus update: v1.2 CPU 🔥

If v1.1 was the big I/O update, v1.2 is all about the CPU - together, these updates help secure Nimbus against future network growth, and provide us with a higher security margin and substantial profitability improvements. To highlight just one data point, CPU usage has been cut

Nimbus update: v1.1.0 release

Hi everyone, We're excited to announce that we pushed our v1.1.0 release over the weekend. This is a big one for us :) There are many highlights in this release. In particular, v1.1.0 contains substantial performance improvements to our database (we have a new schema)

Nimbus: Dashboard challenge winners

This is a rather late announcement regarding our dashboard challenge, which came to a close at the beginning of March. We’re pleased to announce we received two excellent submissions from contributors Joe Clapis and metanull. They have claimed their POAPs and will share the $5k prize money between them.

Nimbus update: v1.0.12 release (Prater testnet support)

This is a short announcement to highlight our v1.0.12 release and bring attention to the Prater testnet which is now open up to the public. The Prater testnet has launched!🎡https://t.co/SyFMS4HB6u pic.twitter.com/8iVHgLDfF6 — Butta.eth (@Butta_eth) March 23, 2021 Prater's

Nimbus v1.0.8 release and Rocket Pool integration

If you want to try your hand at using Nimbus with Rocket Pool, we recommend checking out this wonderful guide by Joe Clapis (note it is addressed to Pi users and very much a WIP). Last week we cut our v1.0.8 release. Improvements include: * Improved libp2p scoring (we

Nimbus Update: v1.0.7 release (doppelganger detection)

We're excited to announce that our new v1.0.7 release is out! This is a big one for us. In a sentence, it includes some significant performance improvements across the board as well as additional protection against accidental slashings. To give you a flavour, our initial impressions

The Nimbus dashboard challenge

We propose a radical change in design from experts designing for people to people designing for themselves. – Don Norman We are proposing to leverage the creativity within the Ethereum community to help us figure out what to display in our Grafana dashboard (for those of you who are unfamiliar, Grafana