Documentation for Lighthouse users and developers.
Lighthouse is an Ethereum consensus client that connects to other Ethereum consensus clients to form a resilient and decentralized proof-of-stake blockchain.
We implement the specification as defined in the ethereum/consensus-specs repository.
You may read this book from start to finish, or jump to some of these topics:
- Follow the Installation Guide to install Lighthouse.
- Run your very own beacon node.
- Learn about becoming a mainnet validator.
- Get hacking with the Development Environment Guide.
- Utilize the whole stack by starting a local testnet.
- Query the RESTful HTTP API using
curl
.
Prospective contributors can read the Contributing section to understand how we develop and test Lighthouse.
This book is open source, contribute at github.com/sigp/lighthouse/book.
The Lighthouse CI/CD system maintains a hosted version of the unstable
branch
at lighthouse-book.sigmaprime.io.