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Beacon chain light protocol plans #162

Closed pipermerriam closed 1 year ago

pipermerriam commented 2 years ago

We need a rough sketch of how we're doing beacon chain light protocol access. I suggest the following.

A new sub protocol for the portal network. I'll call this the "Beacon Chain Light Client" network. This network will provide storage and retrieval of LightClientUpdate objects back to some reasonable historical time horizon. The network will also provide gossip of the latest LightClientUpdate objects as they enter the network (provided by a bridge node).

This will need to be fleshed out into a full spec document. Would anyone like to volunteer?

ogenev commented 2 years ago

I started working on draft specs for the Beacon Chain Light Client network. I will push a PR for review when I have something and then we can iterate on it.