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/

Functions:

• Block and attestation handling
• Managing rewards and penalties.

• The Merge
• Ropsten Beacon Chain
• Bellatrix beacon chain

• lighthouse beacon_node
• Prysm: beacon-chain prysm.sh 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, --checkpoint-sync-url

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
• Consensus, Proof of Stake (PoS), Consensus clients, Execution clients, Prysm, Lighthouse, Lodestar, Teku, Nimbus, Consensus Layer (CL), Beacon client

https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/beacon-chain/#what-does-the-beacon-chain-do