https://github.com/protolambda/singapore
Ethereum 2.0 Sharding on top of Protolith, an experimental generalized blockchain project. ETHSingapore hackathon project.
https://github.com/protolambda/singapore
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Ethereum 2.0 Sharding on top of Protolith, an experimental generalized blockchain project. ETHSingapore hackathon project.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/protolambda/singapore
- Owner: protolambda
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-12-08T14:09:17.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-01-27T15:23:52.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-09T02:13:59.412Z (3 months ago)
- Language: Dart
- Size: 86.9 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Singapore
Eth 2.0 client, built on top of my experimental project [`protolith`](https://github.com/protolambda/protolith).
Started off as an ambitious ETHSingapore Hackathon project (end 2018), but continued development early 2019.
This project aims to become an extensible Eth 2.0 full node with wide cross-platform support,
leveraging Dart-lang (Browsers* Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS).
This project is not commercial, quite experimental for now, and developed as a side-project (due to lack of funding).
By @protolambda - Diederik Loerakker.
## Design choices
Highlights:
- Written in Dart, a language that runs on a lot of platforms, and quite well because of the effort of Google.
- Very modular. The code-base is split up in features, which are mixed together using the `Mixin` feature of Dart.
This enables us to keep things *very* encapsulated, and enable you to create your own experimental Beacon chain **on-top** of this project, instead of hacking it apart.
- Built on **`protolith`**, another side-project of @protolambda. Common blockchain features are shared,
and can be used for other types of blockchain nodes. E.g. a shard-chain may just be a remixed Eth 1.0 chain.
This project is different from the other Eth 2.0 project in the following ways:
- No "state" model. Wtf? Well, the state is split up, and data is stored in another way:
the beacon-state is not saved every slot/block, but instead, only the changes are saved, and tagged with the corresponding block-hash.
And the underlying accesses to the data are async; the storage is abstracted, and a (cached) cloud-based DB may be one of the implementations in the future.
If a state-variable is queried, the query key supplies the block-hash, and the query goes through the ancestors of this block-hash till it finds an entry in the DB.
There's no deletion, only overriding. And the data can be pruned easily (time based on DB index order, or only-canonical-chain based on marking all ancestors of the HEAD).
You could compare this to the way Git works.
- Like a few others, this project uses a DAG of blocks (just hashes), to keep track of the unfinalized blocks, and apply the LMD GHOST fork-choice rule to.
In addition to that, this project deviates from the spec in a non-breaking way: the Beacon-DAG has a voting function
which applies voting based on the target-blocks of each active validator, and does not back-track from targeted blocks
every single hop in the GHOST path-finding towards the head of the chain.
- Code-base is split up in features, and mixins enable quicker changes + experimentation.
Spec-design/experimentation could become easier and changes will be nicely encapsulated.
- Focus on the Node-software first, not so much on the smartcontract / event-log processing.
Building Protolith (generalized blockchain node library) at the same time.
- No team/company/funding. Maybe someday. It's a hobby project for now, with whatever time I can afford to spent on it.
Contributions are welcome! But please understand that it's in an early phase, and things may break.
#### Note on browser support
Browsers are also considered, but Dart 2.0 falls back on 32 bit integers here,
so it would only work with smaller toy numbers (i.e. deposit amounts).
And performance may be considerably worse than on other platforms that run code natively
(instead of cross compiled javascript). It could be good enough for demo purposes however.
## Contributing
Discussions/suggestions are always welcome, but this code is just me during the hackathon.
This repo will be made public near the end of the hackathon,
PRs/issues will be open after judging, to grow the project :)
## Contact
Twitter/Github/Telegram: @protolambda
Site: https://protolambda.com
If anyone would like to donate to this project: [`0xE00ff7cf7b698Dde68a52D934B7726A24e54402D`](https://etherscan.io/address/0xe00ff7cf7b698dde68a52d934b7726a24e54402d)
Also open to join another Eth 2.0 team, I am looking for technical full-time Ethereum related work.
## License
MIT, see License file.