Nimbus Team

Nimbus Team

We need to start thinking hard about validator privacy

If you dont want to be held liable for the risk of processing illegal transactions dont run a node that has a risk of processing illegal transactions. — Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) December 3, 2020 We're seeing a narrative emerge that would have those who run a node be held

Nimbus update: November 10

Since our last update the Nimbus client has made significant progress across security, performance, and ease-of-use. In order to celebrate the release of the eth2 deposit contract, today we're announcing our 0.6 alpha release -- hope. Hope - first binary release Nimbus is easier and faster to

Nimbus update: September 11th

tl;dr * We have a new, simpler sync that greatly speeds up syncing time: we invite you to test it out by updating to the latest devel, removing your database (make clean-medalla) and resyncing ;) * If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, we have a special database

Nimbus: Medalla update - August 21 (take two)

The first thing to say is that our validators are doing much better than last week. We are currently tracking tracking the head of the chain on Medalla and attesting! 🎉 Keep your client updated! If there's one takeaway from this update it's that there have been

Nimbus: Medalla update

Medalla, the first open and community focused eth2 multi-client testnet, launched last week. As of today, there are over 26,000 active validators, and the chain seems to be finalising correctly. Barring a major hiccup, it looks like it may well be our final full-on dress rehearsal before the real

Nimbus Beacon Chain Assessment Kickoff

Today we would like to announce the start of a multi-vendor security assessment of the Nimbus Beacon Chain codebase! This assessment start is the result of the wonderful response we received from the initial Request for Proposal (RfP) sent out earlier this year. We spent a lot of time and

Nimbus status update – February so far

Hello everyone, and welcome to our February status update. Before we start, we want to apologise that such a long period of time has passed since our last update. Bruno’s boots have not been easy to fill. While you can expect more regular updates from now on, we’re

Building Nimbus on Android: Part 2 / Eth 2

I'm back. If you read my last article, then you know that Nimbus is not just for your desktop. That said, you're probably asking yourself, "Why do I care about running Nimbus on my phone inside a Linux sandbox?" Running an Ethereum 1.0

Building Nimbus on Android

Or, how I built an Ethereum client designed for resource-restricted devices on a resource-restricted device. Nimbus's tag line is "an Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client for Resource-Restricted Devices." My thought when reading this is if it's designed for resource-restricted devices, let's see

Nimbus team awarded grant for a native implementation of libp2p

Following up on the Ethereum Foundation Grant announcement, $150k will see Nimbus – in collaboration with Protocol Labs and the Ethereum Foundation – create an implementation of libp2p focusing on mobile devices as well as future private, secure messaging protocols. Nimbus, Protocol Labs, and the Ethereum Foundation aim to produce a native