Ethereum Beacon Chain

wikipedia:Beacon Chain (1 December 2020?) already merged introduced the consensus logic and block gossip protocol which secures Ethereum.

• https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/beacon-chain/

• The Merge
• Ropsten Beacon Chain
• Bellatrix beacon chain

• lighthouse beacon_node
• Prysm: beacon-chain

Proof-of-Stake blockchain, known as a beacon chainhttps://docs.prylabs.network/docs/how-prysm-works/beacon-node

geth

WARN Post-merge network, but no beacon client seen. Please launch one to follow the chain!

geth --help | grep beacon
    --beacon.api value                                                     ($GETH_BEACON_API)
    --beacon.api.header value                                              ($GETH_BEACON_API_HEADER)
          Pass custom HTTP header fields to the emote beacon node API in "key:value"
    --beacon.checkpoint value                                              ($GETH_BEACON_CHECKPOINT)
    --beacon.config value                                                  ($GETH_BEACON_CONFIG)
    --beacon.genesis.gvroot value                                          ($GETH_BEACON_GENESIS_GVROOT)
    --beacon.genesis.time value         (default: 0)                       ($GETH_BEACON_GENESIS_TIME)
    --beacon.nofilter                   (default: false)                   ($GETH_BEACON_NOFILTER)
    --beacon.threshold value            (default: 342)                     ($GETH_BEACON_THRESHOLD)

Related

• Validator
• The Merge (September 2022)
• Beacon Node:
  • lighthouse beacon_node
  • Nimbus
• Gnosis Beacon Chain
• https://beaconscan.com/
• https://beaconcha.in/
• BeaconChainRpcEndpoints
• Attestant.io an Ethereum beacon chain checkpoint sync provider

See also

• Ethereum Beacon Chain, lighthouse beacon_node
• lighthouse beacon_node, --execution-endpoint, --execution-jwt, --allow-insecure-genesis-sync, logs, --checkpoint-sync-url, --help, checkpoint sync, beacon.log
• Beacon Chain, Ropsten Beacon Chain, Bellatrix beacon chain, The Merge, BeaconChainRpcEndpoints, lighthouse beacon_node, 5052
• Beacon Node
• Staking, Tezos, Cosmos, StakeWise, Staking facilities, Finoa, APR, validator, Ethereum Beacon Chain, Lido Staked ETH, Attestation effectiveness, lighthouse beacon node, Staking rewards, Chorus One, Allnodes, Ethereum SRB, Liquid Staking Token (LST), LPOS, Liquid Staked ETH (LsETH)
• Consensus, Proof of Stake (PoS), Consensus clients, Execution clients, Prysm, Lighthouse, Lodestar, Teku, Nimbus, Consensus Layer (CL), Beacon client