Lighthouse Book

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.

Topics

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.

About this Book

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.